The document discusses key trends that have enabled the development of smart wearables, highlighting technological advancements and integration challenges. It emphasizes the importance of design and genuine business models focused on data. Overall, it presents a vision of significant potential despite the complexities involved in creating successful wearable technology.

1. #FFDemoDay #SmartStorm
Wearables: a perfect storm of technology trends
Sylvain Carle
Wear It Smart Conference Montréal
October 2015

2. Will your smart umbrella be enough for this rough weather?
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3. 7 Mega Trends that made Smart Wearables Possible
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4. The PC
is a mere sum
of it’s parts
(disintegration)
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5. The Smart Phone
created the sensor ecosystem
(and economics)
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6. Network is assumed
obvious or desired
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7. Linux and
Open Source
paved the way
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8. Kickstarting is the new bootstrapping
(with market insights)
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9. It’s in you pocket
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10. Near is good enough
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11. The Gamer Generation
worldview and perspective
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12. Challenges for wearables
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• It’s all about integration (or re-integrating)
• Tech is not enough. Design wins. Easy trumps nice
• Hardware is hard. No shortcuts. Good is not great
• Real business models are of the 2nd order (data)

13. Connect all the “smarts”
(wear, home, car, phone, grid)
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14. Amazing potential.
Harder than you think.
Better than you thought.
Endless possibilities!
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15. #FFDemoDay #SmartStorm
Wearables: a perfect storm of technology trends
Sylvain Carle
Wear It Smart Conference Montréal
October 2015