Author: Connected World
Juniper Research says contactless mobile payments to surpass 1 billion users for the first time in 2024.
IDC says by 2026, 75% of market leaders will have systemic, structured digital innovation programs.
ABI Research says satellite communications services market to reach $141 billion by 2030.
From a smart device capable of urinalysis from your home toilet to a robot dog and a smart bird feeder, CES 2023 was full of fun surprises. It also proved the annual event continues to set the tone for the coming year in connected devices across the consumer and enterprise realms, spanning verticals such as healthcare, automotive, smart home, and beyond. In healthcare, the newly announced smart device for home toilets is from Withings, and it really does analyze a person’s urine in realtime. U-Scan is a little Wi-Fi-connected device that contains a dozen test pods with various biomarker tests.…
MachineQ and Omdia say in two years, 70% expect to have more than 50,000 IoT devices deployed, with 5% expecting to have more than 1 million deployed.
Berg Insight says the installed base of connected tanks to reach 23 million in 2026.
Juniper Research says OTT-based conversational commerce spend to surpass $25 billion in 2023.
IDC says by 2028 new efficiencies will allow developers to increase the share of time they spend on innovation from 25% of their development-related work to 75%.
It may not be clear what the economy will do in 2023, but business leaders appear to be clearly positioning themselves to compete in the New Year by investing in technology. A new study commissioned by IBM and conducted by Morning Consult found more than three in four business leaders (78%) plan to invest in tech during the next 12 months. Respondents across the board report their drive to invest is motivated by profitability more so than customer demand. Interestingly, the study shows some of the same factors are simultaneously driving and hindering technology investments. For example, 33% of respondents…
ABI Research says mobile wallets showing strong post-COVID growth, rising to 5.6 billion in circulation by 2027.