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.

From the article, "Analysis: U.S. industrials, telecoms to face off in home automation" by Nick Zieminski.

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