Blog articles from 10/2021

The smart home is a strong driver of residential energy efficiency. Smart thermostats and smart lighting are among the top adopted categories of smart home products, creating opportunities for utility energy efficiency and demand-response programs. New business models and technology provide opportunities to change the customer relationship and drive engagement and participation in energy management solutions leveraging connected devices in the home. Once overlap is accounted for,...

Parks Associates ’ Connected Health Summit: Consumer Engagement and Innovation conference series is excited to announce EarlySense as a 2022 Platinum Sponsor. EarlySense® is the global leader in 100-percent contact-free, continuous monitoring solutions. Used worldwide in hospitals, post-acute care facilities, virtual care and remote patient monitoring applications, EarlySense technology delivers reliable and comprehensive multi-vital, motion, and sleep data. When paired with...

Parks Associates ’ Future of Video: OTT, Pay TV, and Digital Media conference series is excited to announce Comcast Technology Solutions as a sponsor of the December 14 session The Age of Video Aggregation. Comcast Technology Solutions offers a portfolio of technology solutions, the CTSuite that provides the industry with the technology, scale and expertise to expand and navigate the rapidly-changing media and entertainment technology landscape. Comcast invents technology...

The impact of COVID-19 on consumers’ lifestyles, work, schooling, and transportation patterns have been immense. Beyond the actual infections and deaths resulting from the virus, perhaps no impact has been greater than the resultant effects on the economy, employment, and ability for people to make ends meet. 29% of US consumers in households with broadband internet tell us they are “Very concerned” with their ability to pay the bills as of September 2020 – a percentage...

The multifamily housing market has become increasingly important to device manufactures as they seek to drive overall market adoption of the smart home products. Multifamily rental properties represent a particularly lucrative opportunity for smart device manufacturers since they deploy smart home device packages to multiple units at a time. Smart home solutions provide several benefits to MDU property managers: Product differentiation Increase sales price / rental fees...