SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HIGH AVAILABILITY MACHINE-TO-MACHINE MANAGEMENT

摘要

A high availability management system for machine-to-machine (M2M) gateways is provided. A cluster of mobile stations, which act as M2M gateways for a number of M2M devices, form a virtual high availability management pool which provides access to a telecommunications network. A network messaging center detects the failure or unavailability of an M2M gateway and initiates a failover procedure to transfer the gateway responsibility for the devices connected to the unavailable gateway. An M2M management server identifies a failover mobile station associated with the unavailable mobile station and initiates the transfer of the gateway responsibilities from the unavailable mobile station to the identified failover mobile station.