Industry certification and advocacy organisation, CompTIA, has identified blockchain and IoT as two of the big emerging technologies of 2022.
►Use of NFTs expected to become more widespread for personal and legal documents

►Extended use of XR tech will fuel growth of IoT
In a blog post, Scott Campbell of CompTIA points out that: ‘Nobody calls up an MSP or solution provider and says “Hi, I’d like to buy some more blockchain and internet of things please.”’ But he goes on to note that both technologies increasingly provide the foundation for innovative solutions and thus represent a big opportunity for tech suppliers.
Members of CompTIA’s Blockchain Advisory Council and IoT Advisory Council told the group that they expect to see strong emergence of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) beyond digital art and metadata into a way of representing any unique digital asset. Passports, birth certificates, property deeds and more may be stored on a blockchain.
In the IoT sphere, accelerated adoption of extended reality (XR) technology is expected, fuelled in part by the rise of 5G to deliver apps for training, construction, field service, healthcare, and smart cities. Increased mining of cryptocurrencies is expected as a way to counter market volatility, and we will see more AI innovations in healthcare.
Further development of user interface/user experience (UI/UX) technology is also expected to provide more natural interactions for users. These will focus on the areas of voice recognition and control, gesture commands using lidar (light detection and ranging) and machine vision.
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