TeamViewer and Google partner on smart glasses to boost productivity and harvest data

December 15, 2021 | Case Study

Automation and augmentation of manual labor activities are one of the core benefits of digital transformation. Just as barcode scanners sped up processes and reduced errors, adding cameras and recognition technologies around workstations further accelerated productivity while freeing up workers' hands. The next wave of innovation will come from the miniaturization of these system into head-worn products like smart glasses, which should help push efficiencies to the limits of human workers. Smartglasses have demonstrated their utility in capital-intensive applications such as in oil and gas and high tech-manufacturing industries, but potential uses in low-margin, high-volume retail remained untapped.