Do You Feel IoT Device Fatigue Yet?

Hype or no hype, the Internet of Things (IoT) has proven itself an irreversible trend in 2014. The same goes for wearable devices.

As the IoT "becomes more personal and portable," wearables will become "the fastest ramping technology device," according to a Morgan Stanley Blue Paper published last month.

I don't doubt that.

Morgan Stanley's wearable forecast is bullish. Its analysts expect shipments to grow at a 154% compounded annual rate from 6 million in 2013 to 248 million in 2017. That projection is "more than double industry estimates and is arguably still conservative," the report said.

In addition to this basic scenario, Morgan Stanley offers a 1 billion "bull case forecast for 2020." That projection is based on the company's optimistic view on "enterprise adoption (in retail, manufacturing), subsidies for consumers (from insurance, employers), and new use cases (augmented reality)."

As many industry experts have long predicted, the adoption of wearable/IoT devices will accelerate in such industries as insurance and healthcare, the report said.

As Morgan Stanley points out, if manufacturing companies want to monitor employee efficiency and improve processes on the factory floor, wearable devices attached to each worker might do the trick. I get that. This is the upside for a lot of corporations.

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