"smart home" articles
Prior to Parks Associates’ 22nd-annual CONNECTIONS: The Premier Connected Home Conference, Marcio Avillez, SVP Networks, CUJO AI spoke with the analyst team to discuss the future of connected products, AI, and IoT.
Marcio will be participating on the Security and Data Analytics: Protecting the Connected Consumer panel on Thursday, May 24, at 10:30 AM. Panelists joining him on this session include:
Rich Bira, Managing Director, USA, Fibaro
Timo Laaksonen,...
by Parks Associates | May. 10, 2018
Tags: connected CE, CONNECTIONS, industry event, Internet of Things, privacy, security, smart home
Tags: connected CE, CONNECTIONS, industry event, Internet of Things, privacy, security, smart home
Guest blog post by Greg Fisher, Founder at HardwareCon.
Having spent that last 13 years helping over 900 hardware startups (they used to be called inventors) taking innovative, physical products to market, I’ve seen the industry go from one that was dominated by large established companies to the burgeoning hardware revolution that has already brought thousands of startup products to market with new tools and technologies and is just getting started.
Despite the growth of...
According to Parks Associates research, 76% of North American broadband households use Wi-Fi as their primary connected technology , but in the past year, 37% of U.S. broadband households report that their Wi-Fi network seems slow. If operators want to compete effectively in the connected home, they will need to add value through premium CPE and a quality consumer experience.
Parks Associates and Calix will discuss emerging trends for service providers in an upcoming webcast, The...
by Parks Associates | Feb. 26, 2018
Tags: broadband, home networks, Internet of Things, smart home, Webcast
Tags: broadband, home networks, Internet of Things, smart home, Webcast
Prior to the ninth-annual Smart Energy Summit in Austin, Parks Associates sat down with Dave Kaintz, Senior Manager, Southern California Edison, to discuss the future trajectory of the energy industry:
What are the barriers to bringing together a broad ecosystem of smart home products that work together as an energy management system?
The age old problem of interoperability or lack of.
What are the biggest opportunities for the smart home industry to work with the...
by Parks Associates | Feb. 16, 2018
Tags: energy, industry event, Internet of Things, interoperability, Smart Energy Summit, smart home, thermostats
Tags: energy, industry event, Internet of Things, interoperability, Smart Energy Summit, smart home, thermostats
Prior to the ninth-annual Smart Energy Summit in Austin, Parks Associates sat down with Kevin Klages, Senior Vice President, Mass Markets, Constellation to discuss the future path of the energy industry:
What are the barriers to bringing together a broad ecosystem of smart home products that work together as an energy management system?
The lack of centralized control across devices, for example: individual apps for each device don’t allow for optimization across...
by Parks Associates | Feb. 16, 2018
Tags: energy, industry event, Internet of Things, interoperability, Smart Energy Summit, smart home
Tags: energy, industry event, Internet of Things, interoperability, Smart Energy Summit, smart home
Prior to his participation at the ninth-annual Smart Energy Summit , Justin Segall, President & Founder of Simple Energy, recently provided insight on what he sees as the top barriers to smart energy and smart home adoption:
What are the barriers to bringing together a broad ecosystem of smart home products that work together as an energy management system?
Given the fairly nascent state of smart home technologies, interoperability is a major barrier. We see challenges...
by Parks Associates | Feb. 15, 2018
Tags: energy, Internet of Things, Smart Energy Summit, smart home
Tags: energy, Internet of Things, Smart Energy Summit, smart home
Prior to the ninth-annual Smart Energy Summit in Austin , Parks Associates sat down with Jessie H. Shoemaker , Energy Storage Business Developer, Mercedes-Benz Energy Americas, to discuss the future trajectory of the energy industry:
What are the barriers to bringing together a broad ecosystem of smart home products that work together as an energy management system?
The barriers to unifying a cohesive ecosystem of products are myriad. There’s the general...
by Parks Associates | Feb. 13, 2018
Tags: energy, industry event, Internet of Things, interoperability, Smart Energy Summit, smart grid, smart home, smart meter
Tags: energy, industry event, Internet of Things, interoperability, Smart Energy Summit, smart grid, smart home, smart meter
Prior to the ninth-annual Smart Energy Summit in Austin , Parks Associates sat down with Alton Martin with Trusource Labs , to discuss the future trajectory of the energy industry:
What are the barriers to bringing together a broad ecosystem of smart home products that work together as an energy management system?
Due to a lack of industry-wide interoperability standards, there is little incentive for companies to “play nice” with each other. Each...
by Parks Associates | Feb. 13, 2018
Tags: energy, industry event, Internet of Things, interoperability, Smart Energy Summit, smart grid, smart home, smart meter
Tags: energy, industry event, Internet of Things, interoperability, Smart Energy Summit, smart grid, smart home, smart meter