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Table 3.1: Overview of some key applications to-date (end)

Areas of Drivers Examples Possible development Chapter 3
applications
Connected • Faster and more targeted • Worldwide, the top 14 • By 2020, an estimated
vehicles emergency response to car manufacturers, which 90 per cent of cars sold
accidents. account for 80 per cent in the United States will
• To enable drivers to mon- of the global market, all have an Internet con-
itor their cars’ operational have connected vehicle nection -- an increase of
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condition and performance, strategies . more than 80 per cent
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allowing them to improve • The EU is close to agree- over 2013 .
vehicle reliability and fuel effi- ing on requirements for • Cars will share conges-
ciency, as well as keep track of all new cars and small tion and road problem
journeys. trucks to feature an data, enabling other cars
• Pay-as-you-drive insurance. “eCall” system from April to avoid traffic snags
2018 . and to notify repair and
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• Stolen cars can be remotely emergency services
tracked and disabled. of road maintenance
• Autonomous driving. problems.
• More efficient insurance
markets, particularly for
under-served groups
such as young adults.

Healthcare • The need to improve effi- • Patients with chronic • “Quantified self” systems
ciency and care in existing conditions can monitor will measure heart rate,
healthcare settings. and report warning signs, breathing, temperature,
• The need to enable much using devices such as sleep and brainwaves,
greater use of remote connected insulin pumps and apps will help users
tele-medicine services, with and blood-pressure cuffs. record diet and alcohol
greater patient comfort and • The annual cost of intake – increasingly
lower cost. chronic conditions could collected and linked via
• Letting individuals monitor reach USD 15.5 trillion users’ smart phones or
other wireless devices .
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own health, improving well- by 2025, with remote
being by better managing monitoring potentially • Patients will share data
conditions such as diabetes, reducing this figure by to reassure care-givers
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encouraging exercise and 10-20 per cent . and relatives, share
healthy eating, diagnosing advice in online patient
medical conditions more forums, and volunteer
quickly, and encouraging information to medical
compliance with treatment researchers.
regimes.

The immature and fragmented state of markets and testbeds for start-ups and SMEs. These
for many IoT services increases development and can increase market entry, leading to increased
operational costs. A Korean government review competition and reduced costs .
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found limited application of IoT e-government
pilot projects and a low rate of introduction of IoT In addition to these issues, there is a coordination
services in small and medium-sized enterprises challenge. Put simply, IoT infrastructure must
(SMEs). To encourage new businesses to develop be deployed in a given industry sector before
and use IoT applications, some governments applications can be deployed to bring the concrete
(including those of Rep. of Korea, China, India benefits of IoT to that sector. Large investments
and the United Kingdom) are supporting the may be needed to finance the development of
development of IoT business incubators and infrastructure and applications, but this creates a
innovation centres, which include platforms

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