This month I received a smart watch as a gift and one of the first things I did was wear it into work. I don’t have any big plans to use the device for my work, rather I’m probably like most people that “bring” their portable computers into the workplace – I’ll gradually adopt applications that are useful to both my personal and work requirements. If your watch can count your steps why can’t it receive your email?<\/p>\n
We’ve all heard about BYOD and, increasingly, BYOA, so there is no reason to think wearables won’t fall into that category. Just this week I was interviewed by The Australian<\/em> about the proliferation of wearable computers (and their apps) into the workplace.<\/p>\n Wearables in a workplace could deliver everything from operator assistance to safety alerts and fire drill instructions and would have \u201ca profound impact\u201d on business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n Like most “new” trends the business market has actually taken advantage of the technology for some time. When I was an engineer I remember walking around the plant with a wearable gas detector for safety reasons. Today’s wearable computers could easily be adapted for such purposes. BYOW anyone?…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This month I received a smart watch as a gift and one of the first things I did was wear it into work. I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,32],"tags":[130,129,132,131],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-hardware-peripherals","category-tech-industry","tag-byoa","tag-byod","tag-smart-watches","tag-wearable-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Companies will offer work apps for smartwatches, says Telsyte report<\/a>\u00a0– Chris Griffith, The Australian<\/em>, September 30, 2014<\/h5>\n