July 2017 – Internet of Things (IoT) & Wearables

The Smart Payment Association (SPA) just launches an interesting white paper that explores wearable tech from a payments perspective, analyzes the current market and evaluates the wearable industry’s future prospects.

Irdeto released a new global survey on consumer attitudes about IoT Security, including security awareness, how many IoT devices they have in their homes, importance of protecting those devices, concerns about those devices being hacked, who they believe is responsible for security, etc.

Digital advertising is estimated to account for 38% of total ad spend (USD59 billion) in the Asia Pacific region this year and to increase by 5.6%. This auspicious prospect could be the reason for the audience solutions company CtrlShift to rethink its business offerings.

For many, the Internet of Things (IoT) is considered the next major revolution in IT that has the potential to significantly influence, if not dissolve and reorganize, the structures of whole industries, value chains, and the rules of competition.

Customer satisfaction and more ROI for the company, due to more opportunities for personalized real-time campaigns and automated workflows, are just some of the goals marketers want to achieve when using artificial intelligence, according to the recent Forrester and Emarsys study ‘Building Trust and Confidence: AI Marketing Readiness in Retail and E-Commerce’. Around half of

AccuWeather’s new AI weather assistant is a great example to demonstrate how data, new technologies, and social media can create an optimized customer experience.

element14.com, the world’s largest electronic design community, has launched a new Design Challenge for designers and engineers called ‘IoT on Wheels’, looking for 10 community members to demonstrate the power of IoT-connected transport solutions by creating a prototype that shows how current technologies can make today’s vehicles safer, smarter and more efficient.

At the moment, IoT still focuses mainly on consumer-oriented products such as smartwatches and self-driving cars. In the long term, however, business-to-business applications, such as in Industry 4.0 or digitized logistics, will offer even greater potential.

So far, the Internet has primarily networked people, but with the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0, terms which are currently on everyone’s lips, we are by now on the threshold of total networking, where information can be exchanged between people and intelligent things (machines, products, etc.) for any purpose. The fact is that

The convergence of emerging technology is changing the consumer landscape and Convergence 005 | SWITCH will focus exactly on that – the consumer revolution that is driven by the latest emerging technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality (MR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning / M2M, Wearable Technology, 3D Printing, Robotics