Opportunities to catch the wave in a specific industry are often tied to trends;  gas prices go up, everyone talks about renewables or monitoring usage, the baby boomers get older and everyone talks about renewables and monitoring usage…Well sort of.

We can make a case for the techno utopian vision being at the ground floor with the human body 3.0 strategy, but let’s not talk about how near the singularity is at the present time.  (If I have Ray Kurzweil friends in the audience send me a note).

Let’s look at the crawling phase of monitoring.  We are definitely going to see a growth in that part of the business and if you are looking for work, medical machines will require implementers, monitors and maintenance.  It’s a growing side of the business and it’s clearly a place the carriers will gain some benefit.

In the case of medical M2M the reality is our nomadic nature is the driver.

While enterprises know most of the locations and can do the ROI for build it yourself vs. carrier charges, when it comes to medicine, people want the comfort of their own homes and their lifestyles.

So it’s no wonder that at our M2M event at ITEXPO we are talking to a number of companies focused on enabling us to be live well but verified.

Nowadays, staying healthy is something involving your personal smartphone, as there are over 700 apps for medicine / health and that is without the peripheral market of sensors.

One day, your Bluetooth could actually be embedded.

Until then stay healthy, Happy New Year.