Increasing safety concerns
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Description:
Safety and regulations are on everybody's mind these days, although terrorism is eating up most of the media space, technological innovations and development also provide extensive solutions for a wide variety of general safety concerns.
At the same time other technological innovations and developments are naturally contributing to growing safety concern, requiring additional investments in ensuring appropriate safety measures.
Ubiquitous computing will provide unlimited means for new solutions providing new methods and increased efficiency in tracking, controlling to varous fields.
- child-care
- travelling
- home safety
- work safety
Enablers:
- wearable technologies
- automotive industry
- travel industry
Inhibitors:
- New threats caused by technological development
- privacy
- unavailability of good location based systems