The document discusses 6 emerging technologies to watch in 2014: 1) wearable technology and applications in healthcare, entertainment and telecom. 2) templated enterprise apps to reduce costs of customization. 3) real-time sentiment analysis using natural language processing. 4) smart cities and smart grids. 5) machine-to-machine communication in industries like utilities. 6) 3D printing disrupting manufacturing through accelerated product development cycles.

1. Top
6
Immersive
/
Next
Gen
Technologies
to
Watch
for
in
2014
By
Shivaji
Sengupta
me@shivaji.info
www.shivaji.info
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2. ApplicaBons
for
Wearable
Tech
Wearable
technology
pioneers:
• Google
Glasses
• Nike
Plus
Bands
• Samsung
Watch
Industries
with
immediate
impact:
• Healthcare
• Entertainment
• Telecom
ConnecBvity
and
Interoperability
is
going
to
get
beEer
and
enhance
capability.
Wearable
tech
has
just
started.
Nano
Tech
embedded
inside
humans
is
next.
Big
gap
exists
in
developing
enterprise
apps
for
these
industries
who
want
to
quickly
adapt
to
these
technologies.
Consumer
Apps
will
spike
significantly
just
like
when
we
adopted
smartphones.
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3. “Templated
Enterprise
Apps”
Enterprises
Bred
of
sinking
millions
of
dollars
into
large
scale
enterprise
app
deployments
to
then
spend
more
millions
on
customizaBon,
localizaBon
and
implementaBon.
Millions
of
enterprises
looking
for
SaaS
and
PaaS
based
enterprise
apps
specifically
built
for
their
industry
/
market.
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Industries
with
immediate
impact:
• Healthcare
• Entertainment
• Telecom
• Manufacturing
Big
gap
exists
in
developing
scalable
/
one
click
install
apps
for
these
industries.
AWS
addresses
only
a
part
of
this
problem.

4. Real
Time
and
SenBment
AnalyBcs
SenBment
analysis
is
the
use
of
natural
language
processing,
text
analysis
and
computaBonal
linguisBcs
to
idenBfy
and
extract
subjecBve
informaBon
in
source
materials.
Product
companies
have
started
to
use
some
tools
to
understand
what
consumers
are
saying
(expressing
over
the
internet)
about
their
product.
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Largely
untapped
market
with
huge
potenBal
for
web
/
mobile
apps
and
or
SaaS
plaWorms.
Companies
in
business:
• LexalyBcs
• TextalyBcs
• SenBMetrix
• TheySay
• SemanBcForce
• Converseon

5. Smart
City
and
Smart
Grid
With
smart
grids,
ciBes
can
leapfrog
into
the
heart
of
the
future
while
simultaneously
providing
stability,
reliability
and
efficiency
for
its
uBlity
infrastructure.
Smart
grids
offer
flexibility
to
match
demand
and
supply
of
variable
sources.
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Smart
City
Vendors:
• IBM
Smarter
City
• Microso]
City
Next
• Oracle
Smart
City
Sectors
Impacted:
• G2C
PlaWorms
• UBliBes

6. Machine
to
Machine
CommunicaBon
(M2M)
M2M
is
about
enabling
the
flow
of
data
between
machines
and
machines
and
ulBmately
machines
and
people.
Regardless
of
the
type
of
machine
or
data,
informaBon
usually
flows
in
the
same
general
way
-­‐-­‐
from
a
machine
over
a
network,
and
then
through
a
gateway
to
a
system
where
it
can
be
reviewed
and
acted
on.
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There
are
four
basic
stages
that
are
common
to
just
about
every
M2M
applicaBon:
1. CollecBon
of
data
2. Transmission
of
selected
data
through
a
communicaBon
network
3. Assessment
of
the
data
4. Response
to
the
available
informaBon

7. 3D
Cameras
/
Printers
/
Projectors
/
Scanners
3-­‐D
prinBng,
or
addiBve
manufacturing,
has
come
a
long
way
from
its
roots
in
the
producBon
of
simple
plasBc
prototypes.
Today,
3-­‐D
printers
can
not
only
handle
materials
ranging
from
Btanium
to
human
carBlage
but
also
produce
fully
funcBonal
components,
including
complex
mechanisms,
baEeries,
transistors,
and
LEDs.
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Five
3-­‐D
prinBng
disrupBons
that
we
should
begin
preparing
for.
1. Accelerated
product-­‐
development
cycles
2. New
manufacturing
strategies
and
footprints
3. Shi]ing
sources
of
profit
4. New
capabiliBes
5. DisrupBve
compeBtors

8. Contact
me
for
a
follow
up
discussion
on
any
topic.
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