2015 Is The First Year Of Wearable Devices?

Many overseas telecom factories have been working with wearable device manufacturers to build a better ecosystem for wearable device users. If Apple Watch is added alone,

The market and application are difficult to fully popularize and difficult to grow.

Since the launch of Apple Watch in early March this year, many industry analysts and operators are confident about the market of wearable devices this year, and even say that the 2015 is the first year of wearable devices.

Admittedly, since Apple Watch asked the market, the business opportunities of wearable devices have indeed been promoted. From the statistical data of Table 1, we can find that from 2014 to 2019, the proportion of watches and wristbands (rings) is the highest in all wearable devices, and even up to 90% of the proportion. However, if the wearable devices are distinguished by "fashion" and "functional", smart watches are undoubtedly more fashionable than functional. Therefore, if only Apple Watch is added, the market and application of wearable devices can hardly be fully popularized, and it is difficult to grow continuously.

Many overseas telecom factories have been working with wearable device manufacturers to build a better ecosystem for wearable device users. Only in this way, wearable devices will have more room for growth.

Quite a lot

Fans may not be convinced that Apple Watch is more than fashion and functional. But if you think about it, the biggest potential market of wearable devices is in health detection, medical care and preservation. If the data obtained from wearable devices can only be pmitted to personal information equipment such as mobile phones or laptops, then it can only manage personal health data. If it can not connect to Internet of things, Internet, and then analyze with big data, it will play a very low function.

From another point of view, if the function is not high, is the purchaser of smart watches not for fashion or fashion, will they buy a cheap Apple or Samsung smart watch?

Table 1: global shipments and market share of wearable devices, annual growth data of different products 2014-2019 (million pieces)

Role of telecom operators

As early as more than a year ago, Chunghwa Telecom launched the first wearable device for the medical market in Taiwan, and jointly developed intelligent watches with the University of success.

The device can pmit data on the amount of personal movement, the number of walking steps and the heat consumption data of static activities to the smart phone. Moreover, smart watches can also be used as accessories for mobile phones, and can also be combined with related action value-added services.

Although Taiwan's "Chunghwa Telecom" smart watch has not been heated up locally.

But its direction and strategy are correct.

Also more than a year ago, in February 2014, NTT formally announced that it would cooperate with the chemical manufacturer, Dongli, Japan (Toray) to develop intelligent clothing - Hitoe.

Toray was founded in the textile and textile industry, and gradually expanded to plastics, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, medical products, IT related and composite materials and other industries.

NTT DoCoMo and Toray's smart sportswear can be used by athletes as well as pajamas and hats. Wearers can record information in their sleep to monitor their physical condition.

As the DoCoMo of Japan's first Telecom factory, there is no less than that of supporting telecom value-added services. Only in this way can the valuable data collected from wearable devices be smoothly and real-time on the cloud, so that large data analysis can be carried out in order to carry out follow-up related actions.

NTT intelligent clothing developed in collaboration with Dongli Industrial (Toray) Japan

AiQ Smart Clothing, an intelligent clothing company in Taiwan, shares the same understanding.

From the start of metal fiber technology, AiQ has been a professional manufacturer of smart clothing since its debut in 2012.

Kang Qishu, the marketing director of the company, pointed out that "in order to promote the business, AiQ is always exhibiting at home and abroad, but it only chooses electronic related exhibitions rather than textile exhibitions or clothing exhibitions. Another important point is that our purpose is to find partners rather than to sell clothes."

Kang Qishu refers to the partners who are mainly carriers or value-added service providers, because most of the smart clothing of AiQ is mainly based on medical and physiological monitoring, so the real-time pmission of data is very important.

For example, if the wearer is a heart disease or a high blood pressure patient, if the information detected in his smart clothes can not be pmitted in real time, even if the wearer's body is abnormal, such as blood pressure surge, it is impossible to know in real time and immediately make a rescue operation.

If the function of smart clothes can not be exerting, the value is just like an ordinary dress.

Smart smart BioMan series smart clothing

2015 may be the first year of wearable devices, but whether the market can continue to grow or expand, I believe that in addition to the dynamics of Apple and Samsung, the support of telecom operators can not be ignored.