We recently examined Apple’s strategy for gaining home automation market share, and the concept of digital assistants reared its head.

Why are we referencing apples strategic goals when we’re looking at the present state of wearable smart home devices?

Well, a recent IDC report forecasts that wearables will grow by over 15% equating to 198.5 million units shipped worldwide by the end of this year and is projected to hit 279 million by 2023.

Why is this?

Why International Data Corporation Forecasts Explosive Growth and Change in Wearable Sector

Digital assistants migrating to wearables is one of the primary reasons put forward by IDC for this aggressive and continued penetration into the connected home:

“The integration of with wearables opens up new use cases…to tie into the smart home.” – Jitesh Ubrani, Mobile Device Trackers (IDC)

Ubrani points to both wrist-worn and ear-worn wearables with smart assistants being a trend worth watching for.

Ramon T Llamas, the research director for IDC’s Wearables section also flags enterprise adoption and healthcare as “major drivers for the wearables market.”

Llamas suggests wearables will be pivotal to digital health, both in terms of data collection and self-monitoring.

In the business landscape, Llamas flags the accelerated transmission of information as a key to workers completing their tasks more rapidly along with streamlined processes.