Ian Hughes is a Senior Analyst for the Internet of Things practice at 451 Research. He has 30 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 telecommunications.
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. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Technology from Southampton Solent University in 2018.
The firm focuses on high-footfall, high-risk venues such as sports stadiums and railway stations, offering operational transparency around whether certain services are being delivered at the right time. Additionally, it recently added a feature that allows customers to set triggers that alert them to changing situations in a work environment.
451 Research has announced the recipients of our Firestarter awards for the first quarter of 2020. Firestarter recipients are firms specifically recognized by 451 analysts for innovation and market disruption. The companies being recognized with 451 Firestarter awards this quarter are detailed here.
Often associated with IoT gateways, Eurotech has deep experience and an evolving presence in richer edge-computing operations and IoT platforms, combined with HPC projects. This combination has led to its high-performance embedded computing range used in applications like autonomous vehicle training and rail car monitoring.
Virtual reality aims to replace a view of the world, and augmented reality to add digital content to a physical view. Varjo's latest headset mixes that up, using VR-based video pass-through to show what the user would normally see without a headset, then provide additional virtual content. With the extra twist of chroma key potential, new use cases are coming into view.
Combining 451 Research's industry-leading analysis with our Leading Indicator and Population Representative panels for an accurate view of key trends, Voice of the Connected User Landscape: Endpoints & IoT, Consumer Smartphone Trends tracks mobile device manufacturers, operating systems and purchase plans. We track shifts in future buying behavior, purchasing details and customer satisfaction. Fielded in Q1 2020, this survey tracks changes in purchasing as newly imposed restrictions across the country went into effect, closing many non-essential businesses to limit the spread of COVID-19. Purchasing smartphones in-store has long been the preference, with 55% of current smartphone owners having purchased their device in-store, while an additional 5% purchased online and picked uptheir device in-store. This survey helps to gauge the initial reactions to COVID-19-related store closuresand the potential implications on future smartphone purchases.
A few months ago, many would have considered the evolution of autonomous robots as a potential job-killing technology. Now, with the world's current situation where keeping distance from others is the norm, robots engaging with the physical world for us would appear an essential step.
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