Industry Press Releases

The insights, initially published today in an infographic entitled, “A Smart Home Divided,” come from a Support.com survey of more than 3,000 U.S. consumers in November 2015. The infographic is available today from Support.com at the Parks Associates’ CONNECTIONSTM Summit within CES 2016.

From the press release "New Support.com Survey Shows Complexity of Smart Home Systems is Impeding Adoption, Customer Experience."

According to recent research from Parks Associates, a market research and consulting company, approximately 14 percent of U.S. broadband households have expressed an intention to purchase a networked security camera.

From the press release "Arlo Q HD Security Camera From NETGEAR Now Available in Stores" by wallstreet-online.de.

PlumChoice’s Vice President of IoT Business Development Steve Thompson will also participate in the CONNECTIONS™ Summit panel, “Monetization Strategies for IoT and the Connected Home,” where he will discuss how support services for smart devices are critical for IoT providers’ success in acquiring and keeping customers. The session will address the challenges of integrating smart solutions with traditional home technologies, as well as new business and channel strategies for con ...read more

The interactive panel session, moderated by Parks Associates Research Analyst Brad Russell, examines trends in personalization, including privacy and security concerns and strategies to balance connected solutions with regulatory limits and consumer concerns. Christian will showcase developments in securely compiling user behavior and network performance data and will share how this data can be presented in a meaningful way to service providers. He will also address the importan ...read more

Parks Associates data shows that 1 in 5 consumers in the US currently own smart home devices with global growth on the rise and residential connected devices will generate approximately 11 million support requests from consumers. With that in mind, the Z-Wave Alliance and its members are increasingly looking at how to best educate, serve and support new users coming into the smart home market. Launching Z-Wave.com, the consumer portal for tips, best practices and frequently aske ...read more

The interactive panel session, moderated by Brett Sappington, Director of Research for Parks Associates, examines changes in CPE product design and deployment as the OTT, broadcast, and pay-TV worlds converge in a virtual space.

As the CEO of Lynx Technology, the developers of the industry-leading Twonky platform, Driver will be addressing the importance of interoperability and content protection as necessary components of enabling rich media experiences across platforms and ...read more

Sigma Designs® (NASDAQ: SIGM), a leading provider of intelligent system-on-chip (SoC) solutions for Smart TV and Internet of Things (IoT) for Smart Home, today announced the details of the Z-Wave Security 2 (S2) framework available in the Version 6.7 software development kit. The security measures in S2 will provide the most advanced security for smart home devices and controllers, gateways and hubs in the market today.

Gartner predicts 21 billion IoT devices will be in the ...read more

Smart home adoption is definitely on the rise in the U.S., with research from Parks Associates showing that nearly 40 percent of households are planning to buy a smart home product during the next 12 months.
“The majority of smart products are integrated into professionally installed security systems,” said Tom Kerber, research director at Parks Associates. “Our data shows continuing interest in connected devices. Some devices, such as a smart thermostat or networked security ...read more