M2M control platform convergence - A Déja Vù of NGN Control Platform Convergence?

In the last two decades the telecommunications and entertainment industries have undergone major changes due to the impacts of internet technologies and the resulting convergence can be witnessed by Next Generation Networks and corresponding triple and quadruple play service offers. But today Future Internet research, and in particular the Internet of Things, sparks a new inferno of changes in various still isolated application domains. With the rise of Smart Cities we will soon recognise, that real convergence is just about to start and will create lots of challenges and opportunities.