Reuters

Parks Associates today announced Alarm.com and utility San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) will discuss opportunities emerging from their groundbreaking cooperative thermostat program in the opening keynote address "Partnering for Success in Home Energy Management" at the fourth-annual Smart Energy Summit, February 25-27 in San Antonio, Texas.

"SDG&E is leveraging a deployed connected device, in this case an Alarm.com thermostat, in this unique program," said Tom Kerber, Direct ...read more

Ingersoll's Nexia home-intelligence service was one of the first to come to market with an offering with enough capability and low enough price, to appeal to a mainstream customer, said Tom Kerber, director of research at Parks Associates, a market research firm specializing in new consumer technologies.

"The hope is you can break out of that (small) percentage of homes with professionally monitored systems and get into the middle with something more sophisticated," he said. ...read more

Several big players are vying for a piece of the home energy management market – a growing market estimated to be worth over 3 billion by 2015, according to Parks Associates. According to Parks Associates, there is viable market pull for an alternative to the energy management solutions provided by utility companies.

From the article, "The quest for the holy grail of home energy management" by Scott Hublou