Getting Business Ready for

Wearables

Romin Irani

Agenda

• A brief history of wearables

• Current market segments

• Adopting wearables - Factors to consider

• Creating the right experience

A Brief History of Wearables

FitbitC-Series Digital

Pacemaker

Digital

Hearing Aids

Bluetooth

HeadsetNike + iPod

Pebble

2007 20131975 1987 2000 2003 2006

Calculator

Wristwatch

2012

Google

Glass

2014

Year of the

Wearable

Technology Cycles

Source : Mary Meeker Internet Trends Report 5/19/2013

By the Numbers

Fitness Trackers

Smart Glasses

Smart Watches

Smart Clothing

Wearable Cameras

Healthcare devices

Attributes of a Wearable Device

Source : Mary Meeker Internet Trends Report 5/19/2013

Healthcare & the Big Data inside us

• Current fitness bands started the trend – Quantified Self

• Tip of the iceberg

• Big bets being placed on wearables in healthcare – Google, Apple,

almost everyone

Enterprise Use cases

• Empower your mobile workface with timely information

• Situations that demand hands-free operation

• Notifying of potentially dangerous situations

• Easy ways to relaying back information

• Several Examples

• Service Automation

• Communication & Collaboration

• Emergency

• Employee & Location Tracking

Introducing a Wearable solution ?

Need to address these points !!

Data

Who owns it?

What data to capture?

What data to push?

Who has access to it?

Where is it stored?

Interoperability / Data Import/Export

Any standards?

Swap devices?

Inconsistent Data Formats

Wearable

Which one ?

Battery Life

Aesthetics

Non-intrusive

Cost

Wearable Vendor / Product

APIs

Partner Apps

Developer Ecosystem

Regulatory Issues

Pure Software Play

Apps

• Take a leaf out of what Salesforce has done.

• Set of Open – Source Starter Apps

• Various Devices + Different Sources of Data

https://developer.salesforce.com/wear

Big Data

• Making sense out of the data

• Providing actionable insights / alerts

• Integration Play

• Huge scope for machine learning algorithms

• Open Data Standards

Are

consumers

ready

for

Wearables?

Jokes, Horror Stories but data shows otherwise

Experience is key !

Designing the Right experience

• Non-intrusive

• Privacy and Security of Data

• Easy to Read + Understandable

• Right Information + Right Time + Right Context

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#androidwear

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What the Tech can do for you

What You can do with the Tech

What the Tech can do for you

Thank You !

romin.k.irani@gmail.com

References

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/tech/wearable-health-sensors/

• http://wearableworldnews.com/2014/07/02/wielding-wearables-

workplace-four-business-use-cases/

• Mary Meeker Internet Trends Report 2013-2014