Enterprise Wearables on Industrial and Field Service
Increasingly,
wearables devices find their critical status in Industrial and Field Service;
bring up indispensable flexibility.
For
those who are unfamiliar, the fundamental difference between the consumer and enterprise contexts is
that the current series of consumer wearables focus on the marginal and
subjective value of convenience, while in the enterprise; they’re viewed as a
tool.
According to
ABI Research, the warehouse and manufacturing vertical, along with field
services, represent one quarter of the wearable devices shipped to enterprise end
users in 2016. The firm forecasts
shipments to these segments will more than triple to top 35 million units in
2021.