CONNECTIONS™ Industry Insights

Guest post by Deutsche Telekom. Jon Carter, UK Head of Business Development - Connected Home, will speak at the 21st-annual CONNECTIONS: The Premier Connected Home Conference on May 25, 2017.

The smart home is driving a range traditional as well as non-traditional business models - which one fits your business?

While the connected home market is rocketing, with some analysts predicting the market as a whole could be worth almost US$150 billion globally by 2020, represent ...read more

Jorge Perdomo, SVP Corporate Strategy & Development, and Joe Liu, CEO, MivaTek, provided insight on several key industry trends ahead of Parks Associates’ 21st-annual CONNECTIONS™ Conference, which will be held May 23-25 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport:

How is your company engaging consumers through new technology solutions?

Our basic mission is to provide consumers with a collaborative, managed video-verified solution for prioritized response and notification ...read more

Richard Wolpert, Co-Founder & CEO, HelloTech, provided insight on several key industry trends ahead of Parks Associates’ 21st-annual CONNECTIONS™ Conference, which will be held May 23-25 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport:

What does the industry need to do to speed up the slow growth of overall smart home adoption?

The industry is trying their best to make their products Do It Yourself (DIY). And they are doing an admirable job however they must accept there is a ...read more

Rich Kennewick, President of Voicebox Technologies, examines key innovations in the smart home and connected consumer markets for the annual CONNECTIONS: The Premier Connected Home Conference, held May 23-25 in San Francisco: 

What do you think is the biggest driver for the adoption of connected products for consumers?

Home automation with voice-first devices like Amazon Echo and Google Home. By creating a unified access point to connected products they are eliminating f ...read more

Martin Heckmann, Director, Emerging Business, Chamberlain Group, provided insight on several key industry trends ahead of Parks Associates’ 21st-annual CONNECTIONS™ Conference, which will be held May 23-25 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport:

What does the industry need to do to speed up the slow growth of overall smart home adoption?

The smart home is an inevitability: connected technology automates routine tasks and makes users feel more secure at home. It only ...read more

Rod McLane, Sr. Director of Marketing, Ayla Networks, provided insight on several key industry trends ahead of Parks Associates’ 21st-annual CONNECTIONS™ Conference, which will be held May 23-25 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport:

What does the industry need to do to speed up the slow growth of overall smart home adoption?

The cost of IoT development may have to come down before more companies create smart-home products. In Ayla’s recent survey on the “Biggest Op ...read more

Ahead of the 21st-annual CONNECTIONS Conference in San Francisco, Peter Radsliff, VP, Marketing at Arrayent, identifies several trends impacting connected consumer markets:

What do you think is the biggest driver for the adoption of connected products for consumers?

We believe the biggest driver for connected product adoption is not one thing, but comes from the confluence of three elements:

• 1) a compelling story/solution
• 2) great design
• 3) an incredi ...read more

Olaf Lohr, Director of Business Development, sonnen, provided insight on several key industry trends ahead of Parks Associates’ 21st-annual CONNECTIONS™ Conference, which will be held May 23-25 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport:

What does the industry need to do to speed up the slow growth of overall smart home adoption?

It seems like the Amazon Echo, Google Home, or Apple Home, are driving the adoption of a voice activated platforms which lets you add devices e ...read more