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Energy is an important pillar of the converging connected home market. These services, particularly energy management, can attract new customers, increase the stickiness of one's offerings and, once the market moves beyond the first generation of offerings, lead to new recurring revenues.

Parks Associates' Technology Enthusiasts & Adopters of Energy Management reports 65 percent of U.S. broadband households currently rate at least one security or energy value-added services ...read more

According to research from Parks Associates, retailers, service providers and utilities are all entering the U.S. market for energy management, which will help drive annual subscription revenues from these systems to more than $180 million by 2015.

"Energy management is being bundled with home monitoring and control, security, broadband, and video services," said Tom Kerber, Director, Research, Home Controls and Energy, Parks Associates.

From the article, "Bundled servic ...read more

Lighting controls, programmable thermostats, and self-monitoring systems will each exceed $1 billion in U.S. revenues by 2015, according to "Residential Energy Management 2011: Trends and Opportunities" from Parks Associates. By 2015, 13 percent of U.S. households will have some type of energy management network.

"Market movers such as ADT, Best Buy, Comcast, IBM, Ingersoll Rand and Verizon have solutions on the market now," said Bill Ablondi, Director of Home Systems Research ...read more