Higher Education

WebRTC is particularly useful for webcasting, or live streaming of lectures or events. This chart from the Kaltura report highlights how K-12 educators and higher education institutions are using Webcasting in their curriculum.

WebRTC can help education sector in many ways

• Live lectures/events for distributed learning
• Remote guest lecturers
• Group discussion in remote teams
• Recording of live events

Video Conferencing

WebRTC is an open source project that works on open standards and is supported by all major browsers, i.e. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, etc. WebRC supports video, voice, and multimedia content, allowing users to embed video conferencing to any application and build powerful video collaboration solutions based on WebRTC technology.

Growing number of video conferencing endpoints

WebRTC technology has a great impact on the video conferencing market development. After the first browsers with support for WebRTC were released, the potential number of video conferencing endpoints around the world increased by 1 billion devices.

Health Care

The telehealth service market is expected to grow to $9.3 billion by 2021, and it has become a major sector for WebRTC. Its encryption of communications makes it attractive to healthcare providers because of their concern with safeguarding the personal health data of their patients. In the US, health data is protected on a legal level by HIPAA, and any corresponding software product must be compliant with its standards.

Real-time video feeds can be applied to such use cases as teleconferencing doctor-patient appointments, remote therapy sessions, group therapy teleconferences, clinical meetings, and remote observation of operating rooms. These cases have gained acceptance with many health insurance plans to reduce costs. A study conducted by Tokbox Live Video found that around 60% of people are likely to use live teleconferencing to talk to a doctor for non-emergencies. Mobile app stores already have about 500 telehealth applications that use WebRTC. Although it is not exactly an IoT case, it is undoubtedly worth mentioning.

Hospitals

As for more direct IoT development cases, we can mention smart bedside devices—such as vital sign monitors—that communicate with medical stations located at home, which help doctors check physical condition of their patients any time of day and night.

Real-time video feeds can be applied to such use cases as teleconferencing doctor-patient appointments, remote therapy sessions, group therapy teleconferences, clinical meetings, and remote observation of operating rooms. These cases have gained acceptance with many health insurance plans to reduce costs. A study conducted by Tokbox Live Video found that around 60% of people are likely to use live teleconferencing to talk to a doctor for non-emergencies. Mobile app stores already have about 500 telehealth applications that use WebRTC. Although it is not exactly an IoT case, it is undoubtedly worth mentioning.

Manufacturing

As for more direct IoT development cases, we can mention smart bedside devices—such as vital sign monitors—that communicate with medical stations located at home, which help doctors check physical condition of their patients any time of day and night.

If you want to see how it works in real life, look no further. Here is a demo that was created by our team to showcase the capabilities of WebRTC-based communication in real time, enhanced by means of shared Augmented Reality.

Retail

Following IoT trends in manufacturing, industrial enterprises are still rather conservative in terms of technology and innovation. However, the changing business landscape dictates the need for new solutions, which are slowly but steadily introduced by the leading businesses to their core systems.

As an example, we can name applications that trigger or enhance video feeds. A smart factory can use technology to monitor and direct automated processes with sensors. For example, if a thermostat reading indicates that a machine may overheat, it can trigger a video camera to monitor the machine remotely to check its physical condition in real time. Another case is remote support service that can use WebRTC-based video calls for urgent equipment troubleshooting purposes.

Financial Service

The Financial industry is becoming a milepost of opportunities. The financial services sector has also seen a marked increase in consumers moving to online offerings for their convenience, flexibility and options. Some of the fastest growing areas of the online financial services sector are banking, investment and tax filing.

Embedded communication promises higher customer retention and better customer experience – helping financial advisors and service providers sell to customers and win new ones.

IT

WebRTC is basically web real-time communication through browsers. It allows communication between browsers. A WebRTC web application is programmed as a mixture of HTML and JavaScript.The user can also use CSS to customize the look of communication.

It works and communicates with web browsers through the standardized WebRTC API. The WebRTC API must, therefore, provide a range of utilities. Some of them are like connection management (in a peer-to-peer manner), encoding/decoding capabilities negotiation, selection, and control, media control, firewall etc. To understand WebRTC communication in browsers you must go through the different components and architecture.