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Parks Associates released a study on Wednesday that found almost half of home security owners in the United States have a security system that connects wirelessly to sensors.

In addition, nearly 50 percent of smart home devices in the U.S. are self-installed, according to Brad Russell, a research analyst at Parks Associates.

From the article "Study: Wireless Home Security Systems On The Rise" by www.cepro.com

Gartner predicts 21 billion IoT devices will be in the market by 2020 and the burgeoning IoT market will be sensitive to security as the sheer number of connected devices means more attack vectors and more possibilities for hackers. According to Parks Associates, 40% of consumers are concerned with the safety and security of their smart home devices, especially door locks and access control systems.

From the article "Z-Wave’s S2 Framework Provides Advanced IoT Security for t ...read more

Back in 2011, CE Pro reported how a new consumer survey conducted on behalf of the Electronic Security Association (ESA) revealed custom electronics integrators were the No. 3 choice of contractors to install smart home equipment.

Well, a new survey is out and the news is a bit worse. When asked to name where they would trust to buy (not necessarily install) smart home products, integrators are No. 6. According to data from Parks Associates, among U.S. broadband households “ ...read more

Back in 2011, CE Pro reported how a new consumer survey conducted on behalf of the Electronic Security Association (ESA) revealed custom electronics integrators were the No. 3 choice of contractors to install smart home equipment.

Well, a new survey is out and the news is a bit worse. When asked to name where they would trust to buy (not necessarily install) smart home products, integrators are No. 6. According to data from Parks Associates, among U.S. broadband households “ ...read more

Bergman says the custom electronics industry is on the cusp of tremendous IoT growth. (See chart.)

Yet, he pointed to joint research between CEA and Parks Associates that shows only about 5 percent of all IoT devices are installed professionally. 

But Bergman makes the point that with increasing connectivity among devices will come the need for professional installation. The nascent nature of the market is also evident from further Parks data, which was conducted to 10,0 ...read more

Internet providers and black-box makers have all the faculties to create a better support scheme, but there really is a serious disconnect.

Comcast broadband doesn’t communicate with Xfinity Home. Ditto for Time Warner Cable, AT&T and the rest of them. Sigma Designs, which owns Z-Wave, doesn’t include the home automation technology in the 55 million settop boxes it has deployed. And so on and so forth ….

I found progress last year at a Parks Associates conference, where ...read more

Alarm.com does not have 50 percent more subscribers than Icontrol. (UPDATE: Noted research firm Parks Associates, which contributed some data to the Alarm.com reports, believes the 50% figure to be accurate as of October 2014, the time-frame noted in the S-1. See comment below.)

ADT, currently Icontrol’s largest customer, has announced 1.2 million subscribers for its Icontrol-powered Pulse home automation service.

Meanwhile, Comcast recently announced at the Connections ...read more

Whatever the experts conclude at the end of this mess, there are many points of vulnerability for commercial and home networks alike, especially with the proliferation of Internet-connected things inside the premises.

According to Parks Associates, about 48% of broadband households “have privacy concerns about smart home devices.”

That’s troubling enough, but that leaves 52% of households who aren’t concerned about privacy, which is equally troubling. So whichever way yo ...read more