TECHNOLOGY MEGATRENDS

•  Connected living is comprised of three primary aspects of "connected home, connected city, and connected work."
• Connected living involves an ecosystem in which consumers have access to various devices that they can use to avail of high-impact innovative services.
• These services can combine "video, voice, and data" to allow immediate access and connectivity in any place at any time.
• The entire connected living market size will be worth $730 billion in 2020.
• Connected home components such as "home automation, home energy, home health, and home entertainment" will make up 31% of this market size.
• Connected work such as "mobility - mobile email, unified communication, mobile working, and enterprise social networking" will account for 15% of the market.
• Meanwhile, connected city components such as "e-governance, e-citizens, smart transportation cards, e-learning, and mobile banking" is expected to account for 54% of the connected living market.
• One of the companies that are riding on this mega trend include Deutsche Telekom's "connected home B2B platform."
• The company plans to deploy a platform-based strategy to enable the collaboration of major players in this sector.
• Deutsche Telekom is seen as the pioneering company globally to provide a "software-as-a-service connected home platform."
• Its partners can have an access to this "open and independent B2B platform."
• It currently has the biggest variation of partners in this segment.
•  DT's QIVICON B2B business platform has partners from the automation sector (Belkin), security (Pax), health (Tunstall), multimedia (Samsung), appliances and electronics (Miele and Samsung), and energy (EnBW and Solon).
• The company also has its B2BB2C QIVICON-connected home platform for consumers that are connsolidating services from all partners.

• By 2024, half of the jobs that are currently done manually by laborers could transition to robots.
• Other emerging high-potential industries by 2020 and beyond include 3D printing, big data, and virtual commerce.