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Cristina de Luca is a journalist with a masters' degree in Marketing. The last 30 years of her career, Cristina dedicated to multi platform content within the IT and communication areas. De Luca was a reporter, editor and content director for News organisations such as the braziilain media Group Globo, IDG (IDC in Brazil), JB Media Group, O Dia and the internet news portal Terra. Cristina has been awarded six times the Comunique-se award in the categories IT and Specialists.
New research from Inmarsat reveals that investment in the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to outpace investment in cloud and other digital transformation technologies over the next three years. Planned investments in IoT are notably higher than those earmarked for other Industry 4.0 technologies, including cloud computing (9.0 percent), next-generation security (7.5 percent), big data analytics (7.3 percent), robotics (5.3 percent), machine learning (4.8 percent) and virtual reality (4.3 percent). “The emergence of IoT as an investment priority for businesses, and the increasing level of cost savings they expect IoT to deliver in the coming years, demonstrates how well established an IoT technology has become across a number of industries,” comments Mike Carter, president of Inmarsat Enterprise.
The global digital health market is experiencing a boom: with spectacular growth, it could reach $660 billion by 2025. Investors have poured an unprecedented amount of money into the sector in 2020, a year of record funding for startups in the area. Among the 399 healthcare executives heard in a recent Accenture study, 81% said the pace of their organizations' digital transformation is accelerating. One segment that has been growing strongly is digital therapeutics (DTx), defined Digital Therapeutics Alliance as a "new category of medicine," characterized by delivering medical interventions directly to patients using wearable devices, sensors, and evidence-based software to treat, manage and prevent a broad spectrum of diseases and disorders.
To ensure infrastructure is protected against cyberattacks, organizations are increasingly adopting IT infrastructure monitoring tools. This market is projected to grow in revenue from $16.1 billion in 2020 to more than $64.5 billion in 2031. And one segment that is becoming increasingly popular is Monitoring as a Service (MaaS), particularly following the growth in remote working and telemedicine caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. MaaS offerings consist of various tools and applications designed to monitor a particular aspect of an application, server, system, or any other IT component. an approach that aims to ensure maximum availability, security, and performance of IT assets through 24×7, real-time monitoring contracted under a usage-based billing model.
The global Indoor Location market size is expected to grow from $7.0 billion in 2021 to $19.7 billion in 2026, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.9% during the forecast period, according to Markets and Markets. Several factors will contribute to this: the Covid-19 pandemic, for example, has exploded interest in facilities management, virus tracking, people tracking and management, and smart quarantine. The growing integration of beacons into cameras, LED lighting, Point of Sale (PoS) devices, and digital signage; the proliferation of smartphones, connected devices, and location-based apps among customers; and the inefficiency of GPS technology in the indoor environment, too.
