Index Table of Contents Table of Contents... i List of Figures... vii Executive summary... 1 1 Introduction to wearable technology... 3 1.1 Introduction... 3 1.1.1 Background... 3 1.1.2 Definitions... 4 1.2 Market segments... 4 1.2.1 Infotainment & lifestyle... 5 1.2.2 Fitness & wellness... 6 1.2.3 People monitoring & safety... 6 1.2.4 Medical & healthcare... 7 1.2.5 Enterprise & industrial... 7 1.2.6 Government & military... 8 1.3 Technologies and platforms... 9 1.3.1 Mobile operating systems and platforms... 9 1.3.2 Battery and processor technologies... 10 1.3.3 Wireless technologies... 12 1.3.4 Sensors... 16 1.3.5 Display technologies and user interface... 17 2 Value chain and vendor landscape... 19 2.1 Enabling technologies... 19 2.1.1 Hardware component vendors... 20 2.1.2 Mobile operating system vendors... 21 2.2 Devices... 22 2.2.1 Smartphone and consumer electronics manufacturers... 22 2.2.2 Apparel and accessories companies... 26 2.2.3 Specialist vendors... 29 STRATEGIC M2M RESEARCH SERIES i
2.3 Connectivity services and IoT platforms... 31 2.3.1 Wireless operators and managed service providers... 31 2.3.2 IoT platform providers... 33 2.4 Apps and content... 38 2.4.1 Software application developers and content providers... 38 3 Smartwatches... 41 3.1 The smartwatch market... 42 3.1.1 Market size and the largest vendors... 43 3.1.2 Established smartphone vendors and watch brands enter the market... 44 3.2 Smartwatches and wireless connectivity... 47 3.2.1 Bluetooth is the most common connectivity option today... 47 3.2.2 Major players pave the way for cellular connectivity in smartwatches... 47 3.3 Company profiles and strategies... 49 3.3.1 Samsung: Multi-platform and multi-device strategy... 50 3.3.2 Blocks Wearables: The modular smartwatch... 52 3.3.3 Sony: Smartwatch veteran gets new life from Android Wear... 53 3.3.4 Apple: Enough scale to bet on its own platform... 55 3.3.5 Fossil: An approach based on appeal and fashion... 55 3.3.6 LG Electronics: First to release a cellular Android Wear watch... 56 4 Smart glasses... 59 4.1 The smart glasses market... 60 4.1.1 Limited availability and experiments with features and use cases... 60 4.1.2 Imaging glasses, 3D viewing glasses and wearable VR/AR solutions... 63 4.1.3 Growth opportunities in the professional market segments... 65 4.2 Smart glasses and wireless connectivity... 66 4.3 Company profiles and strategies... 66 4.3.1 Recon Instruments: Focus on sports and an active lifestyle... 66 4.3.2 Vuzix: Wearable display specialist turns to the enterprise segment... 67 4.3.3 Epson: Aims at both professional and consumer segments... 68 4.3.4 Google: Glass relaunched as Glass EE in July 2017... 70 4.3.5 Kopin: Provides technology solutions to the smart glasses market... 72 4.3.6 Optinvent: From smart glasses to AR headphones... 73 ii STRATEGIC RESEARCH SERIES M2M RESEARCH SERIES
5 Connected fitness and activity trackers... 75 5.1 The connected fitness and activity tracking market... 75 5.1.1 Market size and major vendors... 76 5.1.2 Fitness and activity tracking bands... 78 5.1.3 Bluetooth connected sports watches... 79 5.1.4 Other form factors... 80 5.2 Fitness and activity trackers and wireless connectivity... 85 5.3 Company profiles and strategies... 86 5.3.1 Moov: Motion tracker, heart rate monitor and real-time voice coaching... 86 5.3.2 Fitbit: The number one wearable device vendor in the world... 87 5.3.3 Microsoft: Ventures in AR glasses, activity band and cross platform service... 88 5.3.4 Garmin: GPS sports watch giant grows with connected features... 90 5.3.5 Xiaomi: On the verge of becoming the largest vendor of connected wearables 91 6 People monitoring and safety devices... 93 6.1 Family locator and consumer oriented locator devices... 93 6.1.1 Child locator devices... 94 6.1.2 Wearable locator devices for adults... 97 6.2 Lone worker protection and offender monitoring devices... 98 6.2.1 Lone worker protection devices... 98 6.2.2 Offender monitoring devices... 100 6.3 Next-generation telecare and mpers... 103 6.3.1 Mobile telecare and mpers devices... 103 6.3.2 Telecare activity monitoring solutions... 106 6.4 Company profiles and strategies... 108 6.4.1 BI Incorporated: Leading provider of EM services in the US... 108 6.4.2 hereo: Start-up offers the hereo family locator watch and app... 109 6.4.3 Everon: Developer of GPS wristwatches for telecare and lone workers... 110 6.4.4 Laipac Technology: Personal locators now represent half of revenues... 111 6.4.5 Navigil: Developer of wristwatch for telecare and lone worker protection... 113 6.4.6 LOSTnFOUND: Swiss asset tracking vendor entering the telecare market... 114 6.4.7 Tinitell: Swedish startup launches mobile bracelet for kids... 115 7 Smart Clothing... 117 STRATEGIC M2M RESEARCH SERIES iii
7.1 The smart clothing market... 117 7.2 The smart clothing ecosystem... 118 7.3 Major smart clothing application areas... 120 7.3.1 Fitness and wellness... 122 7.3.2 Government and military... 122 7.3.3 Medical and healthcare... 124 7.4 Smart clothing and wireless connectivity... 125 7.5 Company profiles and strategies... 125 7.5.1 Bionic Power: The consumer market to be the next step after military app... 126 7.5.2 OMsignal: Venture-capital-backed smart fitness apparel... 127 7.5.3 Sensoria: Connected fitness apparel with a wide range of use cases... 128 7.5.4 Athos: Professional tracking of muscle activity through embedded sensors... 129 7.5.5 Digitsole: Connected insoles and intelligent sneakers... 130 7.5.6 Wearable Technologies: From commuter garments to industrial safety apps. 130 7.5.7 Hexoskin: Creating garments for elite sports, clinical research and defence.. 131 7.5.8 Wearable X: Boutique smart clothing with a number of innovative use cases. 132 7.5.9 Clothing Plus: Prominent manufacturer of smart textiles... 133 7.5.10 Motus Global: Products designed for throwing and batting... 133 7.5.11 Myontec: Advanced smart shorts for healthcare and fitness... 134 7.5.12 Heddoko: Full-body suit for data capturing and analysis... 134 8 Medical devices and miscellaneous... 135 8.1 Medical devices... 135 8.1.1 The mhealth and home monitoring market... 137 8.1.2 Regulatory environment... 138 8.1.3 Wearable medical devices and implants... 139 8.2 Additional connected wearable devices... 149 8.2.1 Wearable industrial computers... 149 8.2.2 Military devices... 151 8.2.3 Authentication and gesture control devices... 152 8.2.4 Other wearable devices... 155 8.3 Company profiles and strategies... 159 8.3.1 Medtronic: Connected wearables for ECG monitoring and CRM patients... 159 iv STRATEGIC RESEARCH SERIES M2M RESEARCH SERIES
8.3.2 Dexcom: Connected continuous glucose monitoring... 161 8.3.3 Proteus Digital Health: Innovative wireless ingestible sensors and wearables 163 8.3.4 Zephyr Performance Systems: Betting on connected wearables... 164 8.3.5 Nokia: Acquires health and fitness focused gadget maker Withings... 165 8.3.6 Zebra Technologies: Wearable computers for the enterprise market... 166 9 Market forecasts and trends... 169 9.1 Global market outlook... 169 9.1.1 Market segments... 170 9.1.2 Regional market data... 171 9.1.3 Cellular connections... 172 9.2 Market forecasts smartwatches... 173 9.2.1 On the verge to reach mass market adoption... 174 9.2.2 Connectivity strategies... 175 9.3 Market forecasts smart glasses... 175 9.3.1 Opportunities in the professional and niche consumer segments... 175 9.3.2 Connectivity strategies... 176 9.4 Market forecasts fitness and activity trackers... 177 9.4.1 Wrist worn activity trackers will face fierce competition from smartwatches... 178 9.4.2 High growth in other form factors... 179 9.5 Market forecasts people monitoring and safety devices... 179 9.5.1 Wearables will be the most common form factor in family locators... 179 9.5.2 Great potential in next-generation telecare and mpers... 180 9.5.3 Modest growth in offender monitoring and lone worker devices... 182 9.6 Market forecasts smart clothing... 183 9.6.1 A wide range of vendors continue to fuel the market... 183 9.6.2 Significant growth anticipated in the smart clothing segment... 184 9.7 Market forecasts medical devices... 185 9.7.1 Cardiac Rhythm Management is the largest connected device category... 186 9.7.2 Connectivity strategies... 186 9.8 Market forecasts other connected wearables... 187 9.9 Market trends and drivers... 188 9.9.1 Wearables are at the intersection of fashion and technology... 188 STRATEGIC M2M RESEARCH SERIES v
9.9.2 The myriad of use cases is wearables killer app... 189 9.9.3 Long-term engagement: bringing it all together... 189 9.9.4 Connected wearables are part of the IoT revolution... 190 9.9.5 Wearables raise privacy and security concerns... 190 9.9.6 Venture capital is a common source of financing in the wearables industry... 191 9.9.7 Continued M&A activities anticipated to take place in the wearables industry 192 Glossary... 197 vi STRATEGIC RESEARCH SERIES M2M RESEARCH SERIES
Index List of Figures Figure 1.1: Market segments, applications and devices... 5 Figure 1.2: Wireless technologies characteristics... 13 Figure 2.1: The connected wearables value chain... 19 Figure 2.2: Smartphone shipments by OS (2015 and 2016)... 21 Figure 2.3: Leading consumer electronics companies by revenues (2016)... 23 Figure 2.4: Smartphone shipments by vendor (World 2015 and 2016)... 25 Figure 2.5: Major apparel and accessories companies (World 2016)... 27 Figure 2.6: Examples of specialist device vendors by segment... 30 Figure 2.7: Top global mobile network operators by subscriber base (Q1-2017)... 32 Figure 2.8: Examples of IoT platform providers... 34 Figure 3.1: Apple Watch 2, LG Urbane 2 and Samsung Gear S3... 42 Figure 3.2: Smartwatch shipments by vendor (World 2015 and 2016)... 43 Figure 3.3: Examples of smartwatches introduced between 2015 and 2017... 46 Figure 3.4: Examples of smartwatches featuring cellular connectivity (Q3-2017)... 48 Figure 3.5: Connected wearables from Samsung (2013 2017)... 51 Figure 3.6: Connected watches from Sony... 54 Figure 4.1: Smart glasses form factors... 61 Figure 4.2: Examples of introduced smart glasses (September 2017)... 62 Figure 4.3: Examples of introduced VR and AR solutions... 64 Figure 4.4: Examples of smart glasses from Epson... 69 Figure 4.5: Optinvent ORA-2 smart glasses... 73 Figure 5.1: Wearable fitness device form factors... 76 Figure 5.2: Connected fitness and activity tracker shipments (2015 and 2016)... 77 Figure 5.3: Examples of Bluetooth connected activity wristbands... 78 Figure 5.4: Examples of Bluetooth connected sports watches... 80 Figure 5.5: Wireless connected activity trackers with alternative form factors (A-O)... 82 Figure 5.6: Wireless connected activity trackers with alternative form factors (P-Z)... 83 Figure 5.7: Moov Now fitness tracker... 87 STRATEGIC M2M RESEARCH SERIES vii
Figure 5.8: Selected connected fitness and activity trackers from Garmin... 90 Figure 5.9: Mi Band 2 fitness tracker... 92 Figure 6.1: Examples of wearable child locator devices... 95 Figure 6.2: Wearable child locator devices... 96 Figure 6.3: Safelet Indra and PFO Shield... 98 Figure 6.4: Lone worker protection devices... 99 Figure 6.5: Offender monitoring solution providers in Europe and North America (2017)... 101 Figure 6.6: Offender monitoring devices featuring cellular and GPS connectivity... 102 Figure 6.7: Mobile telecare and mpers devices... 105 Figure 6.8: Connected wearables from LOSTnFOUND, Limmex and Navigil... 106 Figure 6.9: Connected wearable telecare devices... 107 Figure 6.10: Laipac Technology s Raven smartwatch... 112 Figure 7.1: Smart clothing form factors... 118 Figure 7.2: Examples of smart clothing vendors... 121 Figure 8.1: Examples of wearable medical applications... 136 Figure 8.2: Examples of medical devices... 140 Figure 8.3: Cardiac rhythm and ECG monitoring devices... 142 Figure 8.4: Connected glucose and blood pressure monitors... 144 Figure 8.5: MC10 Biostamp and Orpyx SurroSense RX... 147 Figure 8.6: Examples of wearable industrial computers... 150 Figure 8.7: Wearable industrial computers from Zebra Technologies and Kopin... 151 Figure 8.8: Examples of wearable gesture and authentication devices... 153 Figure 8.9: Examples of various wearable devices... 156 Figure 8.10: Various connected wearables... 157 Figure 8.11: Dexcom G5 app and transmitter... 162 Figure 8.12: Connected wearables from Nokia... 166 Figure 9.1: Connected wearables shipments by device category (World 2015 2021)... 170 Figure 9.2: Connected wearables shipments by market segment (World 2015 2021)... 171 Figure 9.3: Connected wearables shipments by region (World 2015 2021)... 172 Figure 9.4: Cellular connections by device category (World 2015 2021)... 173 Figure 9.5: Smartwatch shipments by region (World 2015 2021)... 174 Figure 9.6: Smart glasses shipments by region (World 2015 2021)... 176 viii STRATEGIC RESEARCH SERIES M2M RESEARCH SERIES
Figure 9.7: Fitness and activity tracker shipments by region (World 2015 2021)... 177 Figure 9.8: People monitoring and safety device shipments by region (World 2015 2021). 180 Figure 9.9: Smart clothing shipments by region (2015-2021)... 183 Figure 9.10: Wearable medical device shipments by region (World 2015 2021)... 185 Figure 9.11: Other connected wearables shipments by region (World 2015 2021)... 187 Figure 9.12: Examples of wearable companies that have received external funding... 191 Figure 9.13: Connected wearables selected mergers and acquisitions (2014 2017)... 194 STRATEGIC M2M RESEARCH SERIES ix
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