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The wearable tech industry is poised for massive growth. Forecasts predict worldwide spending on wearable technology will reach $19 billion by 2018. And by 2020, over 150 million wearable devices will ship worldwide.

Several factors are converging to facilitate wearable technology integration including:
- Expanded wireless capacity due to pervasive wireless (WiFi, WiMAX, and LTE);
- Cellular market saturation and the need for wireless companies to establish new revenue streams;
- Continuously decreasing cost of data, and the significant backing from huge companies including Google, Apple, and others.

Connectedness between wearable tech and the wearer opens up at least three categories of energy management opportunities at home, at the office, and personally:

1. Energy Use at Home-Wearable tech allows more user control over a home's energy. For example, Nest’s Learning Thermostat has a built-in motion sensor, putting your home’s HVAC system into an energy-saving 'away' mode after a period of inactivity. Imagine how much energy could be saved if a device on your wrist signals your thermostat to go into “away” mode the moment you leave your home or neighborhood.

2. Energy Use at Office-Wearable technology can provide information like body temperature, heart rate, and respiration, giving a picture of an individual's physical comfort. Voice recognition software could even detect when people are complaining about feeling too hot or cold.

Wearable tech can also help to condition the person, rather than the entire space. It's more efficient to make an individual person feel comfortable, rather than heat or cool the entire space. In an office setting, think of office chairs with heating elements, wristbands that cool your wrist like that from Wristify, or vents that determine personal air flow like those from Ecovent.

3.Personal Energy Profiles-In a coming era when energy use becomes not just highly personalized, but attached in fact to individual people, it’s not hard to imagine developing personal energy profiles of our individual demand and consumption. And that could open the door to personal energy bills. Usually we bill our energy use to our energy-consuming assets—electricity and natural gas billed monthly for our home, for example. But imagine if instead of assigning energy consumption to our assets we re-assigned that energy consumption to ourselves?

Could wearable tech further open the door to a personal version of demand response? What if wearable tech, in addition to sending personal information out to the systems around us, could also receive signals back to us, such as from your utility. For example, utilities could signal a Wristify bracelet to cool a person instead of an AC unit cooling a entire house.

This report discusses the market opportunities in all sectors, and reveals what we believe will be THE most profitable piece of the wearables market in the next 3-5 years.



This report discuses the market potential for various sectors of wearables. We see developments in key technologies such as Augmented Reality, Body Area Networks, Ambient Awareness, and Peer-to-Peer Communications as drivers for evolution in consumer perception of value and willingness to engage in new forms of communications, content, applications, and commerce.

The miniaturization of technology has reached a point where a variety of sensors and other tech can be built into wearable gadgets (many piggy-backing on a smartphone's connectivity, processing power and local storage) that enhance the user's life in some way. Examples are health monitoring and activity tracking, environmental sensing, data monitoring and recording, collaboration, authentication and augmented reality.

WHO SHOULD READ THIS REPORT:
Even if your business doesn't manufacture or sell wearable devices, it will interface with wearables in some way:

- Healthcare providers will monitor patients from across significant distances with wearable devices;

- First responders will wear cameras to record their actions, and sensors to track their vital signs;

- Sales people will receive pertinent information through their glasses, which will recognize the faces of potential clients;

- Teachers will control presentations with wearable motion control devices;

- And employees will bring everything from personal fitness trackers to smart clothing into the workplace (and onto your network) just as they do with smartphones today.

KEY FINDINGS:
- By 2020, well over 150 million wearable devices will ship worldwide, led by the sports and fitness sectors. Advertisers will likely use exercise data and eating to serve up relevant ads and offers;

- Increased attention toward personal health combined with a movement on the part of providers to contain costs, will trigger products and services that promote preventive measures;

- Wearable technologies will also emerge in the huge disability market (such as aids for the deaf, blind, paralyzed and elderly).

- In manufacturing and enterprise markets, wearable computers for hands-free operation will continue their popularity in field service and assembly lines and warehouses.

- Forecasts for global smartwatch shipments will grow from 1 million units in 2013 to 7 million in 2014. Credit Suisse expects the industry to grow from between $3 billion and $5 billion today to $50 billion within five years.

This report is a must-have for professionals interested in creating profit from the wearable computing market.



Pages: 145
Published: September 2015
Publisher: Red Mountain Insights
ISBN: 978-1-62484-044-9

Market Snapshot
Demographic Trends
Challenges Facing Wearable Technologies
Battery Power
Smartphone Pairing
Bandwidth
Lack of Standardization
Privacy
Security
Manufacturing Challenges
Market Forecasts through
Global Market Size
Market Growth Areas
Industry Trends
Advances in Materials Sciences
Data Mining
Monetization of the Masses
Wearable Computing History
Industry Definition
What are E-textiles?
What is Fibretronics?
Basics of Wearable Computers
Commercialization
Configuration of Wearable Devices
Network Infrastructure
Role of Transducers
Importance of Packaging
Wearability and User Interface

Fitness and Wellness
Vendors operating in this space
Applications in this Sector
Trending Devices
SmartWatches
Vendors operating in this space
Market Growth
Trending Devices

Healthcare and Medical
Vendors operating in this space
Applications in this Sector
Haptic Feedback Applications
Hearing Enhancement
Optical Wear
Trending Devices

Military
Vendors operating in this space
Applications in this Sector
Commercial Applications
Aviation Warrior
Nett Warrior
Military Clothing Enhancements
Combat Pilot Applications
US Future Force Warrior (FFW)

Infotainment/ Fashion
Vendors operating in this space
Applications in this Sector
Smart Clothing
Trending Devices

Gaming and Entertainment
Augmented Reality
Pet Market

Device Profiles

This is just a SAMPLING of the 200 companies profiled:
3M
adidas Digital Sport
adrenaline mobile
AgencyRX
Alcatel-Lucent
Amanda Nicol Consulting
Amdocs
American Family Insurance
Amit Women
Anytime Fitness Corporate
APX Labs
ARM Inc.
Associated press
Asurion
AT&T
AT&T Emerging Devices Organization
ATL
Augmate
AYALA NAPHTALI JEWELRY
Bagbot, LLC.
EMD Chemicals (Merck KGaA)
Engineered Materials Systems, Inc.
Entrepreneur.com
ERDocNOW
Ericsson
Estee Lauder Companies
Ethertronics
IBM
ICON Voice Networks
IDG News Service
iGATE
IMAX Labs
Immersive Ubiquity
Immy Inc.
Indie Cinema Showcase
Intel
interglobe communications
International Business Times
International Business Times TV
InvenSense Inc.
iQor
ISID
ISI-Dentsu, Ltd.
iswimband
IT4Merchant Solution Ltd
ITB Media/International Business Times
ITP, NYU
IVeew
Jenkins & LoPresti LLP
Jennifer's Collectibles
Johnson & Johnson
Jon Lou
JPMorgan
kate spade new york
Rochester Institute of Technology
S3 Group
SaaS in the Enterprise
TheLadders
Tiger Moth
Tiger Moth Hearing
TMC
ToB
Tory Burch
Total Home Electronics Review
TradeStation Group
Travis Software
TurboRoster
turntotech
TWICE
UBM Tech
uKnow
Wellograph, Inc
WFX consulting
Whitecoat Strategies
Windrose Research
WYNIT Distribution, LLC
XO Group
XOEye Technologies
xyeye

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