The user base of China Mobile's  Internet of Things (IOT) has exceeded 200,000 in Shanghai, one of China's municipalities in east China, reported China Business News.

An insider of China Mobile Research Institute reveals that China Mobile boasts 470,000 base stations, and has deployed more than four million IOT terminal devices, rising over 80 percent year on year, across China.

Besides wireless video monitoring, namely real-time monitoring via handsets, China Mobile is rolling out more complicated IOT applications to the market.

According to the latest statistics released by the telecom giant, it has realized remote wireless copy of 1.04 million electricity kilowatt-hour meters in some municipalities and first-tier cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong and Chongqing.

The remote smart meter reading system utilizes China Mobile's mobile networks and copies the meters automatically, which greatly saves the labor costs for recording the meters, and prevents disturbing the residents.

Besides, China Mobile combines RFID (radio-frequency identification) technology with mobile SIM card, allowing users to pay for subway tickets and World Expo entrance tickets via their mobile phones.

Meanwhile, over 2,000 shops in Shanghai began to use POS machines that support mobile-phone payment since the World Expo. In the first month since the opening of the World Expo, business volume of China Mobile's mobile-phone payment in Shanghai exceeded one million yuan.

By using the IOT technologies, China Mobile installed over 100,000 chips on Shanghai's taxicabs and public buses, and also helps logistics enterprises trace and find the location of the vehicles, and choose the routes.