"home safety" articles

ADT and Ford recently announced a partnership to form a new company, Canopy. The new joint venture will bring together ADT’s professional security monitoring and Ford’s AI-driven camera technology to provide customers with safety for their vehicles. Canopy will employ multi-sensor security systems with monitoring from ADT, a first for the auto industry. Canopy’s arrival follows several major residential security players expanding into car protection. In 2019, Vivint...

IoT security and healthcare solutions company Essence Group recently won double awards at CES® 2022. The CES Innovation Awards recognizes outstanding consumer technology products across multiple categories. In the Health and Wellness category, Essence is a CES 2022 Innovation Award Honoree for VitalOn. The remote patient monitoring platform combines telecare, telehealth, and wellness capabilities that monitor and detect patient activity. In the Smart Home category, the company was...

Telehealth and telemedicine solutions have been thrust to the forefront of health care due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The need to avoid exposure to the virus has challenged well-established consumer preferences for in-person visits over remote care. Radical shifts in the regulatory and reimbursement landscape have paved the way for rapid telehealth deployments, including the use of health devices. Parks Associates' latest consumer study of 5,000 broadband households provides trending data...

            ISC West concluded this week featuring exciting, new product announcements in the security space. Leading brands such as Allegion, Clare Controls, Snap One, Alarm.com, and NAPCO unveiled upcoming additions to their various IoT-based solutions offerings. In a positive sign that trade show activity in the tech space is starting to show signs of life, ISC West reported that 10,000 people attended the show...

Security stalwart ADT and satellite TV service provider DISH Network announced a partnership to expand access to ADT’s smart home security products through DISH’s nationwide network of smart home professionals. OnTech Smart Services is a subsidiary of DISH launched in 2019 as a competitor to Geek Squad that will also serve as an installation provider for ADT security products and services. The partnership will allow DISH to market, sell, and install ADT smart home security products...

Parks Associates recently hosted its 15th annual CONNECTIONS TM Summit: Smart Home Growth Strategies . The Summit took place virtually January 14, in cooperation with CES® 2021. The one-day event featured sessions on smart home technology and services, connected health, data privacy, value-added services, and home security. During the session, Home Security Growth: DIY and Pro Channels , Parks Associates Vice President of Research, Jennifer Kent, moderated a panel of industry...

Today, advances in home security and safety devices offer consumers an increasing array of solutions to help them trade in worry for peace of mind. As smart home security devices grow in familiarity, value, and affordability, these alternatives will close the divide from traditional security systems.  On Thursday, January 14, from 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. CT, Parks Associates will host its CONNECTIONS Summit session  Home Security Growth: DIY and Pro Channels ,  which...

The CONNECTIONS Conference is the premier Connected Home conference focused on emerging technology markets in digital media, content distribution, and mobile applications and services. This year' sessions offer its attendees a mix of valuable market research, analysis, and industry insight. During the conference's DIY: Impact on Smart Home and Security session, a  panel of industry experts from across the DIY to Pro-spectrum discussed consumer responses to ever-expanding DIY...