The combination of Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile apps is believed to increase in this year and in the near future which is shown in these following exciting trends. With these predictions, researchers and companies should pay more attention to develop them as well as take advantage of them via paving the way.
The application of IoT and mobile apps combination (Photo: Key Universal)
This continued part is used to discuss about the other best predictions that depict real-world applications of IoT technologies:
3. Improved Retail Shopping Experience
There is some difference between the combination of IoT and mobile apps in the retail industry. In spite of a few good cases recorded, it’s clear that the technology will be popular among retailers.
The retail giant has utilized IoT sensors, cameras, and other equipment in a brick-and-mortar store to exclude checkout lines. A customer enters the store and then scans the special app’s barcode of the retail store, takes the products, and just leaves.
After exiting the store, the customer is sent a receipt. The concept, enabled by IoT and AI technologies, takes the traditional convenience store shopping experience up several notches.
Needless to say, other companies are simply unable to afford. That is the reason why they lose an opportunity to improve the shopping experience with IoT. Combining the advantages of mobile self-service apps with connected devices is an opportunity that’s too good to pass up.
4. More Use Cases in Home Automation
Wireless kitchen appliances, smart mirrors, video doorbells, smart lightning, robotic vacuum cleaners – home automation technology is already used by millions people around the world. The overall awareness of tools like AI-powered voice assistants increases rapidly. As the technology grows, there is little doubt over the future of smart home systems.
Current home automation systems are considered to be an impressive combination of IoT components, apps, and physical equipment. Despite the fact that the apps perform very complex operations, they’re incredibly user-friendly and easy-to-use.
Based on some research conducted around the world, there are some emerging trends that are likely to advance home automation in the future. The reports demonstrated some following trends: A greater role for AI software; more use cases in security and surveillance; more control over home objects (voice-controlled smart showers, shape-shifting furniture, and etc); more health-related devices (smart sensors and cameras in refrigerators suggesting product alternatives and reminding them to do shopping).
5. More IoT Wearables for Everyday Use
There is an increase in the demand of mobile app development services in the creation of apps which are not only simple applications such as fitness trackers, but also smart homes, sleep quality assessment tools, and others. It is no doubt that IoT has been playing a major role in all of this, providing new opportunities and making wearables get better and more functional.
According to a recent Clutch survey, about 35 percent of people participating in the survey said that they owned a wearable device. It also depicts that smartwatches and fitness trackers are the most popular wearables that people use in daily life. Interestingly, more than 90 percent of the surveyed admitted that they have their wearables connected to a smartphone via an app.
With so many smartphone users preferring wearables, we should make more efforts to make the technology smarter and more useful. After 2020, the adoption of the technology certainly increases, as more use cases and functions emerge.
Source: DZone
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