It is steadily obvious that, the industry shifts away from traditional markets, such as family and pet locator devices to non-traditional markets including elderly/health, corporate, and personal asset tracking; that will embrace ubiquitous indoor and outdoor location technology, according to many experts from the industry.
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“Traditional markets still attract attention, given the huge total
available market, but they remain too fragmented, with no obvious sales and
distribution channels,” says Patrick Connolly, Principal Analyst at ABI
Research.
ABI Research recalls that the technology is there to support more
stringent legislation, and indoor location will open up new applications and
services in corporate.
“BLE
beacons will open up corporate, industrial and personal asset tracking markets,
but we also see a host of other technologies emerging, such as UWB, sensor
fusion, magnet field, proprietary Wi-Fi and LPWAN. We believe this will spark
demand for ‘outdoor’ technologies like GPS,” says Patrick Connolly,
Principal Analyst at ABI Research.