The Edge of Tomorrow Survey Thank you for taking part in our annual survey, The Edge of Tomorrow. The findings from our survey will be published in a follow-up report which will be made available via our website in the coming months.The survey should take no longer than 5 minutes to complete. OK Question Title * 1. Please could you advise your area of focus Consumer technology Automotive Manufacturing Smart cities Smart home Healthcare Retail Telecoms Other (please specify) OK Question Title * 2. Please could you advise the type of products that you design or work with Battery-powered Handheld Low-power Rugged Consumer Industrial Other (please specify) OK Question Title * 3. What are your main product priorities for 2021? Adding more on-device processing power Improving reliability Adding or upgrading wireless connectivity (for example Bluetooth, 4G, 5G, WIFI etc) Reducing BOM cost Other (please specify) OK Question Title * 4. Where do you see the biggest market/commercial opportunity for the products you are designing/working with? Autonomous vehicles Manufacturing / industry 4.0 Smart cities Smart home Healthcare Retail Other (please specify) OK Question Title * 5. Typically, thinking about the devices you are designing/working with, which of the following most closely describes your on-device processing requirements: Very high High Average Low Very low OK Question Title * 6. Thinking about future products and applications, will your device processing power requirements: Increase significantly Increase slightly Stay the same Decrease slightly Decrease significantly OK Question Title * 7. What barriers do you see to increasing the on-device processing power of your products? Cost Power consumption CPU / GPU footprint Design complexity System component requirements Other (please specify) OK Question Title * 8. Which of the following statements do you agree with regarding the internet of things (IoT)? The potential of the IoT will be restricted by network bandwidth limitations Cloud infrastructure limits the ability of the IoT to scale More on-device/edge processing will be required to deal with the exponential growth of data from the IoT OK Question Title * 9. Thinking about the commercial potential of your products, would incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) increase your competitive advantage? Yes, significantly Yes, slightly No OK Question Title * 10. What are the biggest barriers to adopting AI in your products? Data security and autonomy Latency Scalability Cost Power consumption Other (please specify) OK Question Title * 11. What is your perception of the artificial intelligence of things (AIoT)? AIoT is going to radically change technology for the better AIoT is critical to improving the way humans interact with technology AIoT is the biggest technology since the introduction of the cloud AIoT is a huge step forward in artificial intelligence and the internet of things AIoT is going to have some effect, but it’ll be quite limited AIoT is not going to make a difference to the world I’ve never heard of the AIoT Other (please specify) OK Question Title * 12. Do you think that 2020 and the challenges brought by the Covid-19 pandemic have changed your product priorities for 2021? Yes No I'm not sure OK Question Title * 13. Please could you explain why you gave that answer OK SEND AND FINISH
