CONNECTIONS™ Industry Insights

Before attending CONNECTIONS™Europe in Amsterdam, Christopher Schouten, Senior Director Product Marketing at Kudelski Security, answered several industry questions:

Where do you feel the largest opportunity is for the smart home industry in Europe?

The largest opportunity for the smart home industry in Europe is to continue to make itself relevant to the daily lives of consumers; to ensure the solutions they provide meet real needs in four major areas: security, home aut ...read more

Before attending CONNECTIONS™Europe in Amsterdam, Charles Dawes, Senior Director, International Marketing at TiVo, answered several industry questions:

Where do you feel the largest opportunity is for the smart home industry in Europe?

For us at TiVo, the sweet spot for “Smart Home” is around the consumption of entertainment media, be this video, audio, or gaming. Consumers around the globe spend almost as much time consuming entertainment as they do sleeping or working ...read more

The 20^th-annual CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference was held May 24-26 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport. CONNECTIONS™ featured over 650 executives in the connected entertainment, IoT, and smart home industries in an intimate networking environment.

The event hosted several contests to engage the audience before and during the three-day event. Parks Associates would like to thank the following organizations for donating items for door prizes:

Guest post by Rob Conant, CEO of Cirrent

Today at CONNECTIONS in San Francisco, surrounded by the world’s leading connected home products, we officially announced the availability ofCirrent. After two years in development, Cirrent is now available to enable connected products—including the many on display at CONNECTIONS—to connect to Wi-Fi instantly and securely, right out of the box, with zero user intervention.

In my previous companies, I would have loved to have these ...read more

PlumChoice, Inc., the leader in specialized technical services for the cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT), announced today that Channing Lai, Director, IoT Product Management will speak about how security concerns and support services can impact the customer experience at CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference, May 24-26, in San Francisco.

During the session, “IoT: Protecting the Consumer Experience,” Lai and industry experts will examine the growing securit ...read more

Guest Blog Post

Audio Analytic continues to lead the world in Sound Recognition for the Smart Home, with its latest new product release. Using their intelligent, embeddable software, Audio Analytic provides the missing link in smart home products by enabling them to recognise and act upon sounds. Indeed, interest in Sound Recognition as a new smart home product category is steadily increasing. The company’s CEO, Chris Mitchell, was recently interviewed on market analyst Mich ...read more

Audio Analytic continues to lead the world in Sound Recognition for the Smart Home, with its latest new product release. Using their intelligent, embeddable software, Audio Analytic provides the missing link in smart home products by enabling them to recognise and act upon sounds. Indeed, interest in Sound Recognition as a new smart home product category is steadily increasing. The company’s CEO, Chris Mitchell, was recently interviewed on market analyst Michael Wolf’s “Smart Ho ...read more

Recent Parks Associates research indicates the crossover between pay TV and OTT is more prevalent among sports service subscribers than other OTT users. In most cases, the highest proportions of consumers indicate signing up for their sports services through a TV service provider, with 63% of NFL Game Pass users signing up through their pay-TV provider.

Parks Associates’ analysts will address OTT content and the transformation of pay TV at the 20^th-annual CONNECTIONS™: The P ...read more