20% Of Wearable Wireless Devices Deployed By 2017 Will Target The Health Care Market

By 2017, there will be about 169.7 million wearable wireless devices in use worldwide. About 20% of those devices (about 33 million) will be for health care applications, such as on-site hospital and clinic monitoring or remote patient monitoring; another 36 million devices (21%) will be for home monitoring applications for older adults; and the remaining 100 million devices (59%) will be used in sports, fitness, or well-being applications. A wearable wireless device can be any item of apparel with embedded sensors to measure, record, and transmit vital sign data or activity levels; the sensors can . . .