Connected Home Systems and Services

Research workshop addresses business model strategies for smart home devices and systems

Parks Associates will host the upcoming research workshop “Crossing the Chasm – Understanding Growth in the Smart Home” on Tuesday, March 21, at the Westin San Francisco Airport in California. The full-day workshop, sponsored by Ayla Networks, will help smart home players develop strategies to expand IoT awareness and adoption to the mass market. Industry participants include executives ...read more

Parks Associates and Sigma Designs to host industry webcast addressing telco business strategies in Europe and Israel

Parks Associates research shows 10-15% of broadband households in the U.K., France, Germany, and Spain would trust their broadband service provider for smart home products or services, roughly the same levels who would trust other channels such as retailers or security dealers. The IoT research firm notes that with this level playing field in consumer trust, ...read more

Complimentary webcast addresses strategies to complete the smart home experience

An upcoming webcast from Parks Associates and Earth Networks will examine strategies to overcome the challenge of “unconnected” legacy devices in the smart home. The IoT research firm notes that nearly 50% of U.S. broadband households plan to buy a smart home device in the next 12 months, but there will still be over 100 million U.S. households that do not have a smart home device by the end of ...read more

IoT research firm surveys consumers on preferred smart home device functions

New research from Parks Associates finds smart home solutions that coordinate safety and home/away event scenarios could help a device manufacturer create cross-platform brand loyalty similar to Apple’s dominance in CE device ecosystems. The IoT research firm finds U.S. consumers are more likely to own multiple CE products from Apple than from any other CE brand, with loyalty based largely around it ...read more

Parks Associates Director to present Canadian IoT research insights at CONNECTED + this week

Leading IoT research firm Parks Associates revealed today that high-income broadband households are driving the recent jump in smart home adoption in Canada. Smart Home and IoT in Canada shows that 19% of Canadian households with an income of $100,000 or more own at least one smart home device, compared to just 5% of those with an income of less than $50,000. Smart programmable therm ...read more

Parks Associates President to present global IoT research insights at Smart Home Summit London

IoT research from Parks Associates shows the adoption of smart home products is significantly lower in Western Europe compared to the U.S., where 19% of broadband households reported ownership of these products in Q4 2015. The U.K. has the highest adoption among all Western European countries, with 13-16% owning smart home devices, compared to 10-13% in France and Spain. Overall ad ...read more

Parks Associates, a leading international IoT research firm, will discuss new data on high-end audio and home systems at CEDIA EXPO 2016, September 14-15 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas.

“Both high-end audio and smart home systems are pushing into the mass market in 2016, and these CEDIA sessions will examine the impact of new sales channels and the role of traditional custom installers,” said Barbara Kraus, Director of Research, Parks Associat ...read more

U.S. has more than twice as many home security systems as Western Europe

Parks Associates today announced the release of a new industry report that addresses the state of home security and smart home offerings in Europe. State of Residential Security and Smart Home in Europe analyzes the many issues that challenge companies seeking a piece of the European marketplace for security systems and adjacent smart home products and services. The research report also profiles the Eur ...read more