Author: Connected World
IDC says Asia/Pacific tablet market grew slightly in 2022.
Gartner finds 60% of marketing leaders believe collecting customer data while balancing privacy and customer value will be more challenging in 2023.
The statistics can be scary. 4,764 workers died on the job in 2020. Employees in construction and extraction occupations accounted for 20% of those deaths. While technology has continued to advance to address this very issue, many fatalities and injuries are still occurring. University of Houston computer scientists have set out to find a solution by developing ViPER+, which accurately tracks workers’ location using ultra-wideband technology. The ViPER+ system surmounts challenges of other ultra-wideband based realtime safety monitoring systems primarily because it overcomes non-line of sight situations. These are instances in which trucks, construction loaders, and other equipment block the…
ABI Research says enterprise on-premises and carrier deployment will create an edge server total addressable market of almost $19 billion by 2027.
Guidehouse Insights says smart city AI revenue estimated to reach $6.5 billion by 2032.
Juniper Research says smart metering will generate $60 billion in revenue for vendors globally by 2027.
How digital twins and other emerging technologies are making grids work smarter. The electricity grid is a complex, critical infrastructure system, and globally, grids are under tremendous stress. Beyond the typical concerns of addressing reliability, resiliency, and capacity, experts say the grid needs to be “smarter.” How can utilities leverage technology to support the large-scale integration of renewable energy sources like wind and solar power, plus the electrification of transportation? What’s more, how can they do this while ensuring reliability of the power system and delivering the same service to end users? Emerging technologies are helping infrastructure, including power grids,…
EVs (electric vehicles) are surging, due to a number of factors. The IEA (Intl. Energy Agency) says sales of EVs doubled in 2021 from the previous year to a new record of 6.6 million. Back in 2012, just 120,000 electric cars were sold worldwide. In 2021, more than that many are sold each week. This trend is set to continue in the years ahead as well. Fortune Business Insights suggests the U.S. electric vehicle market size was $24.03 billion in 2020 and is projected to grow from $28.24 billion in 2021 to $137.43 billion in 2028, which represents a compound…
IDC says Asia/Pacific spending on AI will reach $49 billion by 2026.
Gartner predicts fines from government and other regulatory bodies focused on commerce ethics will exceed $5 billion by 2027.