Lack of Managing Wearable Devices Could Kill Adoption
Channel: Nearsoft, Inc
Date: 2015-03-16

Wearable devices provide a lot of wonderful information, especially to improve the productivity of a distributed non-controlled environment. But there’s a huge hurdle towards adoption and that’s maintenance. What devices needs repairs, software updates, and recharged batteries?

“If you can’t manage those devices they’ll create more work than they’re helping to reduce,” admitted Mike DiGiovanni of Augmate, a company that manages wearable devices at companies. 

We spoke with DiGiovanni and his colleague Victor Kaiser-Pendergrast at the WearablesTechCon about how their companies manage devices.

These devices work well wherever there’s any unstructured work going on such as at warehouses, factories, or people working in the field. For example, instead of pulling out a scanning device, the UPS guy can just look at a package and scan it. 


Streaming video from a head mounted device

We also spoke with Pendergrast about his two-month project to do video streaming from a heads up device. He said from his experience you’re going to have to make a compromise of video resolution, battery life, and latency. You essentially can only have one. Pendergrast said a good sweet spot for video quality was 480p and 20 frames per second.