Author: JT

By the year 2020, CCS Insight is predicting that there will be 411 million wearables owned by consumers.

Analyst firm, CCS Insight has now give its wearable technology outlook an update, now predicting that by 2020, there will be 411 million smart wearable technology devices owned by consumers, and that the industry will be worth a massive $34 billion.

The firm also stated that, by the close of 2016, the wearables industry will have broken the $14 billion mark.

The predictions that it has made is that wrist-based wearable technology devices, such as many fitness trackers and smartwatches, will continue to top the list among the most popular gadgets in the category. The forecast the analyst has issued has stated that wrist-worn wearables will make up half of all sales in this category in the upcoming 12 months. Moreover, smartwatches are expected to make up 50 percent of the predicted 60 million device shipments that it expects to occur during that time.

This wearable technology update has changed since mid-2015, showing a 41 percent market share for the Apple Watch.

At that time, it said that there would be 20 million Apple Watches sold in 2015. That said, its data has now shown that during that time, the figure was strikingly lower; at only 9 million device sales.

Previously in February, another firm, Canalys, had indicated that its estimates were that in 2015, there were 12 million Apple Watches shipped. If that firm’s claims are true, that would give the company a much larger share, at about two thirds of the smartwatch marketplace. On the other hand, a week after that, Gartner released its figures and said that in 2015, the total number of smartwatch sales from all brands was 30 million. These varying numbers and measures make it evident that knowing what has already happened may be just as difficult to measure as predicting what will be occurring a few years down the road.

According to CCS Insight chief of research, Ben Wood, when discussing the wearable technology forecast report, “Given the rising consumer apathy toward smartphones, it is little wonder so many companies are chasing the rapidly growing opportunity presented by wearables. We’re particularly excited about the potential for augmented and virtual reality devices, and we predict 2016 will be a pivotal year.”

NEC Indonesia plans to implement this new tech in select medical centers to improve sustainability and care.

NEC Indonesia, an IT and communications solutions and products firm, has now announced that it will be implementing a new form of mobile technology solution into select hospitals throughout the country.

This implementation of mobile tech will be a major component of its “Solutions for Society” project.

Among the IT solutions to be implemented as a part of this mobile technology program, will be its Bedside Nursing (BSN). The goal of the Solutions for Society project, as a whole, is to generate value in order to enhance the security and sustainability of Indonesian society. This particular component is designed to help to overcome the challenge of providing efficient, safe and yet affordable healthcare, which is a rising struggle for many organizations worldwide.

The proper use of mobile technology may help hospitals to be able to overcome some of those struggles.

The primary challenge faced by nearly every hospital on the planet is in being able to meet a broad spectrum of needs of a patient population that is growing in its diversity. BSN has been created as an innovative IT solution that will ease the burden of those challenges through efficient resolutions.

In order to use, BSN, nurses are equipped with mobile devices, such as tablets, in order to be able to obtain patient data on a real-time basis, and then make a request for information from the Hospital Information System (HIS). In this way, the nurses are better able to offer effective and personalized care to each patient.

The BSN system from NEC Indonesia is scalable on Android based mobile devices. It is meant to be user friendly and convenient, as well as compatible with the HIS platform. Upon the initial launch of this solution, it will be implemented in two of Indonesia’s major medical centers, including: Cimacan Public Hospital and Budh Asih Public hospital.

Through the use of this mobile technology, the result is supposed to be a reduced operational cost, while decreasing the risk of medical administrative errors and simultaneously improving patient care.