ABSTRACT
The quality professional needs to embrace, thrive on and master technology, as a precursor to improving quality and efficiency of their profession. Voice control is becoming widely used in the home for a wide variety of information tasks, such as establishing the weather, playing music and creating to-do lists. Experiment with wearable and voice-controlled technology to improve efficiency and effectiveness in the workplace. As world leaders in adopting voice assistants, over a quarter of the US population uses voice technology in connecting with their smartphones. As the home device Internet of Things market of voice-controlled technology becomes extensive, so the migration to business equipment and devices is likely to take off. Smart construction clothing has slowly emerged with prototypes aimed particularly at health and safety enhancements. The Spot-R clip automates attendance times on site, automatically warns supervisors of the location of a hard fall and the inbuilt alarm can aid site evacuation in case of emergency.
