{"id":5567,"date":"2020-09-09T10:44:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T10:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5567"},"modified":"2021-01-08T10:21:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T10:21:14","slug":"social-distancing-technologies-take-the-fast-track-through-the-hype-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/social-distancing-technologies-take-the-fast-track-through-the-hype-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Distancing Technologies Take the Fast Track Through the Hype Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gartner has a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/en\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2020-08-18-gartner-identifies-five-emerging-trends-that-will-drive-technology-innovation-for-the-next-decade\" target=\"_blank\">recent update<\/a> to their research of hype cycles that takes into account disruption caused by the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gartnerthypecycle.png\" alt=\"Social Distancing Technology Hype Cycle\" class=\"wp-image-5568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gartnerthypecycle.png 850w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gartnerthypecycle-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gartnerthypecycle-768x517.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Five emerging trends have been identified:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Social Distancing Technologies<\/li><li>Composable Enterprise<\/li><li>AI-Assisted Design<\/li><li>Differential Privacy<\/li><li>Biodegradable Sensors<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Social distancing technologies, related to the COVID-19 pandemic, are taking the fast track through the Hype Cycle and have high impact. Technologies rarely enter the Hype Cycle at the point where social distancing technologies has entered it<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/socialdistancingtechnologyflashing.gif\" alt=\"Social Distancing Tech\" class=\"wp-image-5570\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Wearable devices provide more reliable performance than smartphone apps because smartphones&#8217; transmit and receive capabilities vary considerably across types of device. Using defined, known wristbands or lanyard devices eliminate the variances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/SocialDistancingContactTracing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about Beacons for Workplace Social Distancing and Contact Tracing <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gartner has a recent update to their research of hype cycles that takes into account disruption caused by the Covid pandemic. Five emerging trends have been identified: Social Distancing Technologies Composable Enterprise AI-Assisted Design Differential Privacy Biodegradable Sensors Social distancing technologies, related to the COVID-19 pandemic, are taking the fast track through the Hype Cycle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/social-distancing-technologies-take-the-fast-track-through-the-hype-cycle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Social Distancing Technologies Take the Fast Track Through the Hype Cycle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,270],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5567"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5964,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions\/5964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}