Events

Smart home executives to discuss channel strategies at CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference, May 19-21

Parks Associates today announced executives from ADT, Cox, Lowe’s, Reliant, Resolution Products, and Time Warner Cable will participate in a channel strategies session at CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference, 9:00 a.m. on May 20. Recent smart home data from Parks Associates shows one-third of U.S. broadband households plan to purchase a smart h ...read more

AARP, Humana, Johnson & Johnson, Omron Healthcare, UnitedHealth Group, and Walgreens join 2015 Advisory Board 

Parks Associates today announced the Advisory Board and agenda topics for the second-annual Connected Health Summit: Engaging Consumers, taking place September 9-10 in San Diego, CA. The executive conference will focus on innovations in connected health technologies, the impact of new players such as Apple, Google, and Samsung, and new business models to drive cons ...read more

Parks Associates estimates U.S. broadband households watch an average of 3.4 hours of Internet video per week and have an average of 7.5 devices connected to the Internet, including a mixture of tablets, smartphones, PCs/routers, and connected CE. At the same time, 69% of U.S. broadband households are willing to pay $2.99 per month for a bundle of smart energy services. Parks Associates will host CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference, May 19-21, in San Francisco, t ...read more

International research firm hosts connected home conference May 19-21 in San Francisco, CA

Parks Associates today announced the keynotes and preliminary agenda for the 19th-annual CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference, taking place May 19-21, 2015, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport.  Keynote speakers from Comcast’s Xfinity Home, Nest, and Samsung will join industry leaders and Parks Associates analysts to address critical business issues pertaining to ...read more

Smart Energy Summit addresses New Business Models, Marketing Strategies, and Business Partnerships in the Consumer Energy Markets

Parks Associates hosted Smart Energy Summit: Engaging the Consumer this week in Austin, Texas, where industry analysts and executives addressed new strategies to accelerate innovation and capture the business potential in energy markets. Two-thirds of U.S. broadband household are willing to pay for a smart energy management service, but awareness ...read more

Parks Associates Addresses New Consumer Segmentation Research at 2015 Smart Energy Summit

Parks Associates announced new research today at Smart Energy Summit: Engaging the Consumer showing 33% of U.S. broadband households are interested in bundling HVAC maintenance services with their electricity services. Twenty-seven percent would bundle Internet and electricity services.

“Over 50% of U.S. broadband households are willing to pay for a bundle of energy monitoring servi ...read more

Industry Leaders and Analysts to Address Smart Home Solutions and IoT this week at Smart Energy Summit: Engaging the Consumer

Parks Associates hosts the sixth-annual Smart Energy Summit: Engaging the Consumer this week, February 16-18, 2015, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin, Texas. Over 250 industry leaders from utilities, service providers, retailers, manufacturers, and technology companies participate in panel discussions about the smart home, the impact of new busin ...read more

2015 Smart Energy Summit Features Texas Companies Including Austin Energy, TXU, and Reliant

Fifteen percent of Texas broadbandhouseholds own a smart energy device (such as a programmable thermostat, light bulb, power strip, outlet, or plug adapter capable of connecting to the Internet), compared to 10% of U.S. broadband households, according to Parks Associates. The Dallas-based market research firm will host the sixth-annual Smart Energy Summit next week in Austin

“Texa ...read more