Connected Home Systems and Controls

Consumer technical support needs are strongly influenced by the number and type of connected devices consumers have in their homes. More consumers working and attending school from home has led to an increase in the number of computing devices being used in broadband households. As consumers adapt to doing more activities virtually, they encounter more technical problems. At the same time, device manufacturers are adjusting technical support strategies to support customers...

ADT and Ford recently announced a partnership to form a new company, Canopy. The new joint venture will bring together ADT’s professional security monitoring and Ford’s AI-driven camera technology to provide customers with safety for their vehicles. Canopy will employ multi-sensor security systems with monitoring from ADT, a first for the auto industry. Canopy’s arrival follows several major residential security players expanding into car protection. In 2019, Vivint...

IoT security and healthcare solutions company Essence Group recently won double awards at CES® 2022. The CES Innovation Awards recognizes outstanding consumer technology products across multiple categories. In the Health and Wellness category, Essence is a CES 2022 Innovation Award Honoree for VitalOn. The remote patient monitoring platform combines telecare, telehealth, and wellness capabilities that monitor and detect patient activity. In the Smart Home category, the company was...

Smart major appliances - refrigerators, clothes washers, microwaves, clothes dryers, dishwashers, ovens, water heaters, air conditioning units and range/cooktops - emerged in the US market in 2011. However, like smart home devices, adoption rates for different categories of smart appliances were fairly low. Adoption barriers such as high prices, perceived poor value proposition, slow replacement rates, and limited product availability have negatively impacted growth in these markets....

Parks Associates ’ CONNECTIONS Summit: Smart Home Growth Strategies conference series is excited to announce GE Lighting , a Savant Company  as an Event Sponsor. Headquartered at historic NELA Park in East Cleveland, Ohio, our roots date back nearly 130 years to Thomas Edison and the invention of the world’s first light bulb. Today, as part of Savant Systems Inc. we’re bringing the future to light by ensuring brighter lives and a more sustainable world through...

Parks Associates ’ 25th annual CONNECTIONS: The Premier Connected Home Conference continued this afternoon with sessions Smart Home: Bridging Platforms and Changing the Experience Sponsored by Johnson Controls and Privacy and Security from 11 AM to 4:15 PM CT. Paul Palmer, VP Service Provider Business, Consumer Business Unit, F-Secure , was featured as an interactive panel member during the session Privacy and Security where he and other major executives addressed the...

Parks Associates ’ 25th Annual CONNECTIONS: The Premier Connected Home Conference returns for the final sessions of 2021 Europe and the Smart Home and Insurance and the Smart Home Sponsored by Notion from 11 AM to 4:15 PM CT. Markus Henkelmann, Director Smart Residential Products Yale EMEIA, ASSA ABLOY GROUP will be featured as an interactive panelist during the session Europe and the Smart Home at 12:15 PM CT, where he and other major executives will address the value...

Smart home products have yet to achieve critical mass in Europe. Parks Associates finds that 55% of UK broadband households do not own and do not plan to purchase smart home products due to lack of personal benefit. However, introductions of new connected products that bring new value is driving increased adoption and future purchase intentions. An emerging opportunity for smart home growth includes the collaboration of insurers and smart home solution providers, as 70 million US...