Ian Hughes is a Senior Analyst for the Internet of Things practice at 451 Research. He has more than 27 years of experience in emerging technology as a developer, architect and consultant through key technology trends.
Ian has 20 years of experience at IBM in cross-industry application development. This included automotive, global sporting events, retail and telecoms.
Ian was early to the Web development space in 1998 and social media in 2004, and was influential in virtual-worlds adoption in 2006-09. He has spent the past seven years at his own consulting company, where he presented a regular emerging technology feature, on a UK Saturday morning children's TV show, built virtual disaster simulators for hospitals, pitched startups to investors, wrote a technology column for a fashion magazine and wrote two sci-fi novels.
An early proponent of usage-based insurance, Octo continues to transform with the automotive insurance telematics market by providing extensive big-data analytics for driver risk modeling, claiming management and insights into accidents.
Technologies enabling advanced driver-assistance systems and safety applications for automotive suppliers and OEMs continue to gain attention. EyeSight Technologies aims to bring its computer vision algorithms to vehicles as well as homes, AR/VR headsets and other systems.
The company's IIoT hardware devices have been combined with its PrismTech division's edge computing and connectivity, allowing brownfield installations to evolve to edge- (and eventually fog-) enabled industrial business components.
The company has raised $50m in a series C round to accelerate its expansion of gesture-based controls for augmented and virtual reality applications. It plans to expand globally by taking its hand- and finger-tracking software to Asia, as well as serve new verticals such as industrial training simulation and healthcare.
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