Digital Smart Jewelry: Next Revolution of Jewelry Industry?

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to examine business potential of digital smart jewelry. When jewelry has tens of thousands of years of history, it is interesting to find out what people think of jewelry that contains technology. The study was conducted as an action research, in which researchers acted as main innovators of smart jewelry. The smart jewelry can be divided into two main product groups: the esthetic light jewelry and the functional jewelry. Six different jewelry prototypes were manufactured-three pieces for both product groups, after which they were tested by potential and nonpotential users. According to study, the smart jewelry seems to have business potential, but as often with radical products and new markets, it will take time. Forty percent of potential users saw the smart jewelry as fun, cool, fantastic, and an inevitable future. On the other hand, 25% kept them as obnoxious. The functional jewelry seems to have much more potential target groups and users than the light jewelry. As wearable technology and the Internet of things become more common, the smart jewelry market will probably grow as well. The healthcare and wellness industry is a particular force for growth.

LPWAN and Embedded Machine Learning as Enablers for the Next Generation of Wearable Devices

“…Regarding the latter, end-devices with natural language processing [ 33 ], computer vision [ 34 ], or city navigation [ 35 ] capabilities, will be essential to increase the autonomy of impaired people. Smart jewelry and straps are other devices that are currently receiving great attention, given their features to be employed in a range of eHealth-related services [ 36 ].…”

Innovation of Smart Jewelry for the Future

“…Smart jewelry, as a kind of ornament worn on the body, is noticed by developers and given with various diversified functions, and it has become a subdivision of wearable devices. Smart jewelry is a category of wearable technology, and therefore the market definition of wearable technology was applied to the second market definition: smart jewelry involves esthetic electronic devices, which provide value for their user through esthetic and different functions and features [2]. If connecting hardware devices to mobile phones, information exchange will occur between the device and human body, thereby generating a human-computer interaction (HCI) and human-human interaction (HHI).…”