With the end of the year approaching, many experts make predictions for the market directions at least for an upcoming year. Such organizations as Gartner have already announced their visions. So let’s have a closer look at the top tech trends and discuss how it will influence of lives and business strategies.
1. The Device Mesh
The device mesh refers to an expanding set of endpoints people use to access applications and information or interact with people, social communities, governments and businesses.
The device mesh is basically a part of Internet of Things. We all have noticed a tremendous growth in this area this year. Many companies are stating that they’ve got the best platform for internet of things. Still most of them ignore the fact that they all are just fragmented. It’s quite obvious that users would benefit more if there was an ecosystem where data was shared more broadly. This trend is expected to evolve in 2016. The value of the combination is much greater than the sum of the parts, experts say.
2. Ambient User Experience
This trend results from the previous one. It’s expected that sensors will gather more contextual information. Here experts are talking about a long-term future of immersive environments with augmented and virtual reality, but for now it’s mainly about continuity between devices and location.
“Instead of the user having to go and look for something like hotels, the device would already know what kind of hotel they are looking for based on what hotels they have picked in the past.”, experts say.
Context comes from both human and physical elements. The former is emotional state, habits, interests, group dynamics, social interactions and colocation of others, present tasks, and general goals, while the latter is the user’s absolute position, relative position, light, pressure, noise and atmosphere of the area.
3. Information of Everything
According to Gartner, by 2020, 25 billion devices will be generating data of all possible kinds about almost every topic imaginable. Looks like a chaos, doesn’t it? So the most challenging trick is to be able to sort out this data and make sense of it. Hence the need in different semantic tools, classifications and data analysis will only arise. So this is where some companies might consider expanding into.
4. Advanced Machine Learning
Another tech trend for 2016 and beyond – and tied up with the Information of Everything – is advanced machine learning. It basically means that computers are going to automate data processing by learning and adapting. The end result is artificial intelligence. In the process, much of the initial analysis can be done by machines and people will need to engage at a higher level as a result.
5. Virtual assistants
The software virtual assistants are also bringing the change. Google Now, Cortana, Alexa and Siri are just the beginning. Many specialists are exploring how they can use autonomous things and agents to augment human activity and free people for work that only people can do.
6. Adaptive Security Architecture
The majority of CIOs list security as their top priority, especially with an increased number of companies that have experienced breaches. That’s why the development of adaptive security architecture is inevitable. Techniques to avoid detection include frequently checking antivirus results and changing versions and builds on all infected servers when any traces of detection appear. Cloud-based services and open APIs only make the demand for adaptive security higher.
Among other trends, experts mention 3D-printing and bioprinting in particular, bluetooth beacon and others. These trends have already set foot in our lives, they are just going to expand further. So which of them have influenced your life in particular? Do you think one of them will outpace the others? Please share your thoughts and predictions here. Thanks a lot!
Aliona Kavalevich
Business Development Manager
