Will India ride the sensor trend?

Indians are late adopters, but they do get the hang of the wave and make it big. Will the sensor trend currently rising in US will shine in India as well? Or we will skip it to jump on next big thing?

After skimming and shimming of articles in NYTimes, WallStreet, TNW, Techcrunch, Verge & Mashable, about technology, its development, and where it’s heading, there seems to be a unanimous view about larger dependencies of humans on the senses.

Majorly, through the increase of sensors.

From the GPS, Gyroscope, Accelometers in the phones, to FitBit sensors which senses your heartbeats (wonder if they will alert someone, if suddenly my heart stops beating), and to the nest controlled homes. The ubiquitous nature of sensors and growth of apps & technologies which are integrating them is fascinating.

However, I am here to talk about us, Indians, our populous and where we stand:

We are most populous country well, 2nd, but soon to be No.1 with 1.241+ billion people.

Most of us still live in villages. Rest are flocking Tier-2 or Tier-3 cities. But, we have the youngest, well-educated and very hard working population.

Most Indians has a basic function feature phone (age >25), some will have a lower segment smartphone (almost 85% of these) and the rest are SIVs, SIIIs and iPhones etc.

Currently, our need, does not ask high end phone, except when we are taking pictures, watching videos & listening to music. We are just now getting used to the GPS functionality.

Thus, the drive of growth from Indian point of view still seem to be majorly revolve around the context of increased quality of our basic senses - Sound, Image & Videos.

But the time will rapidly progress, with adoption rates exponentially high, Indians might skip most of the sensor trends, and straightway jump onto the next big thing! (Like we skipped BBs and jumped straight to the smartphones!).