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Parks Associates announces early  sponsors for its 2021 Smart Energy Summit, including Bidgely , Austin Energy , and Flo | AddEnergie . The Smart Energy Summit offers a unique combination of industry expertise and extensive consumer research and analysis, ensuring sponsors are in front of a high-level audience unavailable anywhere else within this market. It will feature speakers from Uplight, Austin Energy, FLO | AddEnergie, GE Lighting, a Savant company, Bidgely, Cox...

Parks Associates is now accepting speaker submissions for CONNECTIONS™ 2021. The CONNECTIONS™ Community brings together over 1,200 industry executives to network and participate in sessions focused on converging IoT industries. Submit to Speak: http://www.parksassociates.com/events/connections-us/conn-us-cfp CONNECTIONS™ 2021 will feature sessions on March 24, May 12, May 25-26, July 14, August 18, September 22, and November 9-10. Thank you to our early 2021...

Today, smart homes equipped with IoT technology, are quickly increasing in popularity due to the convenience, comfort and security it brings. Parks Associates, an internationally recognized market research company specializing in smart home technology found that 30% of US broadband households report owning at least one smart home device. The firm’s research shows that 20% of Canadian broadband households own remotely-monitored internet-connected device and 14% own at least one...

On August 25, Samsung and NET2GRID announced a partnership that brings advanced energy management features to the smart home. The solution provides insights on energy use in the home along with tips to save energy. The energy monitoring solution will also leverage Samsung smart appliances, HVAC systems integrated with SmartThings, and the Ynni platform to facilitate behavioral and automated demand responseutility programs. Since Q4 of 2018, smart home tech giants have put more focus...

Smart home devices, smart appliances, and energy systems are increasingly integrated into residential energy management programs. Smart thermostats, the most adopted category of smart home products, have created opportunities for utility energy efficiency and demand-response programs while solar, batteries, and clean energy services will leverage smart home technology in the future. Parks Associates’ 2020  CONNECTIONS™ Community  is a virtual conference series and...

Parks Associates is supporting Utility Cloud 2020 , a conference surrounding the topics of integrating cloud solutions to manage the influx of large volumes of data in a dynamic grid environment. This event takes place September 15-17, 2020, in Amsterdam. Drawing together utility software, system and transformation leads, this 3-day case study driven program provides an intensive review of the latest cloud technologies, strategies and solutions to manage an ever-increasing data...

Parks Associates recently hosted its annual Smart Energy Summit in Austin, TX. The summit brought together industry professionals from both the smart home and energy management spaces. Analysts and executives discussed several key industry topics, including consumer engagement with utility energy-efficiency programs. According to research by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE), energy-efficiency programs are the lowest cost energy resource available today....

Parks Associates is excited to feature Abhay Gupta from Bidgely as a keynote speaker during our eleventh annual Smart Energy Summit ! He will be speaking on Wednesday, February 19, at 9:45 am, and will be discussing how providers can win the customer mindshare by becoming the trusted energy advisor on areas such as electrification, peak demand management, energy efficiency, and customer satisfaction and can confidently act as a conduit to connect their customers with the other services...