Author: Connected World
Gartner says 63% of organizations plan to make compensation adjustments in response to inflation.
Medical devices, which are more complex than ever, face new security challenges. Especially since they are connected to the outside world for remote access, and monitoring, or used in home care applications. These risks increase the stakes in terms of product safety liability for manufacturers as security vulnerabilities can impact human lives. Unlike enterprise and government technology where cybersecurity has been a mainstay for years, product security is a relatively new discipline for medical device manufacturers. Meanwhile, the use of third-party software, including open-source components, and libraries, in connected devices further raises the ante, making software supply-chain security increasingly critical.…
Berg Insight says the number of active consumer asset tracking devices in Europe and North America to reach 28 million in 2026.
Strategy Analytics says U.S. self-monitored security market to reach $5.3 billion in 2027.
Parks Associates says 34% of MDU property managers offer their IoT devices in at least one property they manage.
Could the tidal shift in EV (electric vehicle) adoption be happening now? The latest IEA (Intl. Energy Agency) report on the space, the Global EV Outlook 2022, suggests EV sales doubled in 2021 to a new record of 6.6 million, with more EVs currently being sold each week than were sold in all of 2012. IEA says even despite the global supply chain issues that have plagued industries like automotive, EV sales have continued to rise so far in 2022, with 2 million EVs sold globally in the first quarter alone. The agency says there were 16.5 million EVs on…
Juniper Research says carrier billing spend for digital goods will exceed $74 billion in 2026.
IDC says worldwide Ethernet switch revenues increased 12.7% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2022.
Gartner says marketing budgets have increased to 9.5% of overall company revenue in 2022.
Berg Insight says the installed base of aftermarket car telematics devices reached 87.4 million in 2021.