Author: Connected World
How can human-centric lighting improve our health and provide energy savings? Patrick Gall, head of channel development, Orro, sits down with Constructech editorial director Peggy Smedley to shed some light on how connected lighting can brighten our day. Peggy Smedley (PS) How has home control evolved in the past decade? Where are we today? Patrick Gall (PG) Home control has come a long way in the past decade. Previously, it was only possible to get home-wide control of your technology via expensive home automation systems, often costing customers tens of thousands of dollars, if not more. While those types of…
There’s an upward trend in businesses’ need for cloud services, IoT (Internet of Things), network virtualization and automation, and advanced network management, and this is driving the NFV (network function virtualization) market. In fact, research from MarketsandMarkets suggests the global NFV market will expand to $36.3 billion by 2024, with major market driving factors including the growing need for advanced network management systems to handle the increasing network traffic and complexities. In another research study from Meticulous Market Research, which forecasts even farther out, the data suggests the NFV market will reach $122 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR…
IDC says IT product sales accelerated in Q1 2022, with a 13.1% growth.
Parks Associates says 61% of livestreaming viewers watch sports, the most popular type of content.
The path forward requires tech, policy, mindset shift, and common language for measuring progress. Society is turning a corner in how it consumes energy and how it evaluates the need for global decarbonization. For the first time, trends like a readiness to cut energy consumption, combined with technology advances that allow average consumers and businesses to track energy consumption, plus a sharp decrease in the cost of renewables and energy storage have all converged. What’s left is a huge opportunity—an opportunity to do nothing short of changing the course of the planet. There’s momentum behind this global shift to clean…
ABI Research says the metaverse and immersive collaboration and related services will reach $22 billion by 2030.
Berg Insight says the installed base of fleet management systems in South Africa to reach 3.6 million units by 2026.
Juniper Research says 5G voice users to reach 2.5 billion globally by 2024.
As we approach the halfway point of 2022, the cybersecurity outlook for the year could be better. In April, there were at least 11 cyberattacks in the U.S. targeting several different sectors—public administration, healthcare, universities/education, telecommunication, and food. For instance, Austin Peay State University was the victim of a ransomware attack at the end of last month, as was the ADA (American Dental Assn.). Thanks in part to the spike in cybersecurity incidents in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, more organizations are investing in proactive measures to keep themselves as safe as possible. One example of a proactive measure…
IDC says software sales through North American distributors saw a compound annual growth rate of 5% from 2018 to 2021.