Wearable technology has been touted as one of the most important applications of the Internet of Things, and with good reason. The wearable electronic displayed by the consumers transforms the ways of the lives. The smart watches and devices like Fitbit have allowed the people to track their exercise and the health progress in the manner not possible before. These smart watches areseen to have brought about the power of smartphones into the wrist of the wearer. The mass adoption of the smart watches helps in creating opportunities for social innovation. 1.Replace charity wristbandsSince 2004, the charity awareness wristbands were seen to explode in the popularity and around 800 million of these were sold by Livestrong along. These charity awareness wristbands are now more popular as compared to the charity pin badges. The retailer cuts, production costs and the shipping expenses meant that the charities are benefitting very little in terms of the finance from their sales. However they are seen to have an awareness raising effect and are even termed as thegateway donation where the people on the charity books are seen to be highly exposed to the valuable calls for acting. With the help of smart watches, the awareness can be raised for ones favourite charity using the branded watch face on the wrist. This will help in delivering more funds to the charity. (HAWORTH, M., 2015).2.Healthy societyThe smart watches are potential for the people who want to track their fitness and health and are helpful in maintaining a society with high health. These smart watches are help in keeping a close check on the health and provides a personalized health and fitness information. This has been highly revolutionary in the health industry and also has been allowing the individuals to be highly aware of their health and their personal selves. In the near future, the smart watches wouldalso been able determine the period when the person would be highly prone to being sick.
3.Controlled livesThe usage of these devices are helpful in boosting the creativity as well as the personal efficiencyfor the individuals along with helping them to stay in constant touch with their friends and family. These electronic devices are seen to be designed for fashion as well as functions and helpin generating the data which can easily be stored as well as analysed in the cloud. This stored data can easily be stored as well as analysed in the cloud. These insights can easily be downloaded from the clouds and stored at any point of time enabling them to manage all their career ambitions, fitness goals, personal relationships and finances. Therefore, these wearable devices and smart watches have made the societies highly self-confident, intelligent and in control with their lives.4.Fighting crimeThere are wearable camera which are able to snap the photograph after every thirty seconds and take photos without someone holding up or aiming a camera for alerting others present nearby to the fact that the image has been captured. Therefore, these smart watches and wearable can act asthe perfect alibi. The user can provide the police with the Google Latitude location record as one of the legitimate proof of the location. These smart watches can also help in geotagging, timestamped point-of-view photos and videos. Therefore, the smart watches or wearable would not only vibrate the social issue and raise awareness regarding the issue but it can also help in prompting people to act. (Bryant, M. (2013). This will be a creative and innovative step towards fighting the crime and reporting it to police as soon as possible. Therefore, this aspect of the smart wearable is highly beneficial for the society. 5.Saving the lives of the vulnerable
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