CONNECTIONS™ Industry Insights

Jeff Patton, GM Connected Home Products, GE Lighting, provided insight on several key industry trends ahead of Parks Associates’ 21st-annual CONNECTIONS™ Conference, which will be held May 23-25 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport:

How is your company engaging consumers through new technology solutions?

GE Lighting is bringing the future to light through a new generation of lighting that is as different from Edison’s first light bulbs as smartphones are from the f ...read more

Bruce Wright, Business Development Director, Americas Business Unit, AirTies Wireless Networks, provided insight on several key industry trends ahead of Parks Associates’ 21st-annual CONNECTIONS™ Conference, which will be held May 23-25 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport:

How is your company engaging consumers through new technology solutions?

Today we are seeing many service providers investing heavily to bring faster Internet speeds to the home, but factors inc ...read more

Comcast’s senior executive Sridhar Solur will provide the opening keynote: “Humanizing Connected Home Experiences: Using Machine Learning and Voice Control” at the 21st-annual CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference.

Solur is Senior Vice President of Product & Development for Xfinity Home, Internet of Things, and Data Services, and he will present the keynote address at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 23. The event will be held May 23-25 at the Hyatt Regency San Franci ...read more

Yossi Atias, General Manager, IoT Security, BullGuard, provided insight on several key industry trends ahead of Parks Associates’ 21st-annual CONNECTIONS™ Conference, which will be held May 23-25 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport:

How is your company engaging consumers through new technology solutions?

Dojo by Bullguard is a new modern product that uses the most advanced technologies available for consumer engagement. From a business point of view, we’re using s ...read more

Christopher Carney, Co-Founder & CEO, Abode Systems, provided insight on several key industry trends ahead of Parks Associates’ 21st-annual CONNECTIONS™ Conference, which will be held May 23-25 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport:

How is your company engaging consumers through new technology solutions?

Through Abode, we’re providing a highly interactive smart home security system that leverages familiar mobile and web technology to give the consumer the ability to ...read more

More than 380 million connected cars will be on the road by 2021. Parks Associates will address new strategies to tie the connected lifestyle together across connected car, home, energy, and entertainment ecosystems during the session,“Auto Industry Transformation - Lessons and Opportunities for IoT Players,” at CONNECTIONS: The Premier Connected Home Conference.

The 21st-annual event will be held on May 23-25, 2017 at the Hyatt Regency Airport in San Francisco and will addr ...read more

Parks Associates' 21st-annual CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference will take place May 23-25 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport in San Francisco. The event provides a day of pre-show research workshops highlighting Parks Associates’ consumer data and analysis and two days of conference sessions focused on technology adoption and trends, forecasts for new products and services, evaluation of new business strategies, and recommendations about technology inno ...read more

Research from Parks Associates shows that while familiarity with smart home products is still low, there is more and more interest from consumers to integrate connected products in the home.

• 5% of U.S. broadband households own a smart plug/adapter module.
• U.S. broadband households with smart light bulbs own 2.4 of these products on average.
• 92% of U.S. car owners perform an activity that requires a mobile or Internet connection while driving.
• 19% of U.S ...read more