SDM (Security Dealer Magazine)

Recent studies suggest that home networking is rapidly moving from what has been an early adopter market in 2001 to increasing adoption by a broader segment of the population. As the audience widens, some studies suggest which applications and products will materialize. For more information on how home networking is moving beyond PCs and printers toward entertainment, view the Parks Associates press release.

From the article "Home Networks Finally Finding a Home" in Insider Re ...read more

Many others involved in home automation also feel security dealers have more potential to increase revenues substantially by expanding and diversifying into different types of installation. In recent years, home theatre has been the most popular option, says Steven Triolet of Parks Associates, but other systems such as multi-room audio/video, central home controller systems, intelligent lighting systems, etc., can be incorporated into the installing dealer's growing business.   C ...read more

Do-It-Yourself Security Snapshot.

• Distribution:  Retail, catalog, Internet's World Wide Web

• Installation:  Homeowner-installed

• Price:  $100 and up

• Average Equipment Installation:  Main console or control, two contacts, one motion detector

• Technology:  Wireless

Monitoring:  Automatic phone dialer for pre-recorded messages; monitoring available with some through contract central station resources.

Source:  "Residential Securit ...read more

Buoyed by myriad low-cost and easy-to-install computer networking solutions, Parks Associates forcasts that the cumulative valure of the residential LAN market will reach nearly $1.9 billion in 2004.

Aimed at multiple-PC households, which Parks Associates estimates will grow from 18 million in 1999 to 31 million in 2004, PC-to-PC networking solutions will constitute one portion of a larger in-home network market, according to Parks Associates' in-home networks analyst Kurt Sch ...read more

Concern for home security is apparently more acute in the South compared with other regions of the U.S.  This according to a recent study by Parks Associates, a research and consulting firm based in Dallas, Tex.  The same conclusion was reached through the Home Security survey conducted by SDM and Protection One.

According to the study, Southerners are far more concerned about home security than both Midwesterners and Northeasterners.  Almost 73 percent of Southerners agree wi ...read more