In a recent research, it was found that annual revenues from connected healthcare and fitness online services will approach $2 billion by 2019 i.e. nearly six times the $320 million value estimated for 2015. The study also found out that connected healthcare devices and the data they generate will benefit consumers of these new products. The study further found that the importance of hardware will diminish at a much faster rate than other IoT market segments and demand for analytics software (that can extract meaning from data) will increase. Read more at: http://www.socialmediatoday.com/technology-data/2015-03-31/demand-big-data-apps-fitness-and-healthcare