Smart Energy Insights

V. Rory Jones, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of PlanetEcosystems, answers industry questions prior to speaking at Smart Energy Summit in February:

What are the major barriers impacting consumer adoption of energy related products and services?

The integration of data from across sources remains very immature, and until data is pulled together in a way that makes the customer experience very simple and highly automated, adoption will be limited and slow. Also, th ...read more

The wave of smart products and smart home systems entering homes combined with the rapid introduction of software-based value-added services is out of sync with the slow and arduous utility pilot process. 2015 will bring innovation into the residential measurement and verification process. Data analytics based systems will provide tools such as disaggregation and weather normalization that can quantify savings for energy efficient products and services. Utilities need a measurem ...read more

Parks Associates welcomes and thanks the newest sponsor of the sixth-annual Smart Energy Summit in Austin: WeatherBug Home by Earth Networks. 

Dave Oberholzer, the Director of Energy Products & Business Development for WeatherBug Home, will be participating on the session "Smart Meters: Creating Value in Big Data and Analytics" on Wednesday, February 18 at 10:45. Moderated by Parks Associates director of research Tom Kerber, other speakers on the panel include Bidgely, PlotW ...read more

Parks Associates would like to welcome and thank EcoFactor for sponsoring the ninth-annual Smart Energy Summit, taking place February 16-18 in Austin, TX. The HEM company will be joining attendees and other sponsors at the summit as a Break Sponsor.

Matt Plante, CEO of EcoFactor, will be speaking on the panel "Smart Meters: Creating Value in Big Data and Analytics" on Wednesday, February 18 at 10:45. Moderated by Parks Associates director of research Tom Kerber, other speake ...read more

Parks Associates extends thanks to Alarm.com for sponsoring the 2015 Smart Energy Summit. The company will be joining other sponsors and industry experts during the annual event in Austin, taking place February 16-18. 

Jay Kenny, VP, Marketing for Alarm.com, will be participating on the panel "The Future of Smart Home Systems and Home Control Platforms" on Wednesday, February 18 at 3:30pm CT. Other confirmed speakers for this session include Icontrol Networks, Lowe's, and Ti ...read more

Parks Associates research shows consumers are interested in reducing their energy use—the firm's recent home energy management industry report shows 84% of U.S. broadband households took at least one action to reduce energy usage or costs in the last 12 months. 

Recently, SunPower announced a partnership with energy management software designer Tendril, allowing the company to integrate solar array data into a new home energy management service. Consumers will now be able to ...read more

Parks Associates welcomes and thanks Lowe's for sponsoring the 2015 Smart Energy Summit. Lowe's will join the sixth-annual executive conference as a Dinner Sponsor.

Lowe’s has entered the Smart Home market with a broad range of innovative new connected products and services using their Iris platform. Iris allows consumers to monitor and control their home from their computer, tablet, or smart phone. The broad range of Iris products and services are designed to appeal to the ...read more

This week, Parks Associates announced new research and the members of the 2015 Advisory Board for the sixth-annual Smart Energy Summit, taking place February 16-18, 2015 in Austin.

The Smart Energy Summit 2015 Advisory Board helps shape the content and focus of the conference with the Parks Associates energy research team. It includes the following participants:

• Roy Perry, VP, Ecosystem Alliances, Alarm.com
• Kevin Petersen, President, AT&T Digital Life
• Bil ...read more