"home automation" articles

Households with children are the major buyers of all things technology in the home, as well as all consumer goods . They provide the viewing and recommending experiences for new products to the more average buyers and their assessments, of specific brands and product types help guide the overall marketplace. Parks Associates research shows there are about 32 M households with children including: 15% of all US households with 1 child; 12% of all US households with 2...

Smart lighting has yet to capture the imagination of most consumers, in part due to a lack of familiarity and in part due to the industry’s poor use case explanations. Significant opportunity still exists in the smart lighting category. Smart Lighting Devices Smart lighting devices belong in the family of smart home energy devices and are comprised of three categories – smart light bulbs, smart in-wall switches, and smart plugs/adapter modules. Unlike traditional...

Parks Associates’  CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference  series is excited to announce  Plume  as a Research Partner. Plume is the creator of the world's first Consumer Experience Management (CEM) Platform powered by OpenSync™. As the only open and hardware-independent solution, Plume enables the curation and delivery of new Smart Home Services rapidly and at a massive scale. This allows Service Providers to offer their subscribers a...

Parks Associates continues its thirteenth-annual Smart Energy Summit: Engaging the Consumer with the virtual session, State of Residential Energy Management , on Thursday, April 7, from 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM CT. Paul Wezner , VP, Product and Customer Success, Powerley will be featured on the interactive panel, The Future of Energy: A Paradigm Shift, at 11:15 AM CT, addressing how the new requirements for active consumer participation in energy savings will drive the...

Parks Associates’ consumer surveys consistently find that “peace of mind” consistently ranks in the top three smart home benefits that most influence purchasing. Thirty-one percent of recent buyers report “peace of mind” as the top benefit influencing their purchases. Security service providers can build on consumers’ desire for this value and develop other offerings that address peace of mind. Released ahead of this week's ISC West , Parks Associates' new whitepaper...

At Design & Construction Week, Parks Associates—in collaboration with LG Electronics—recently led industry executives in discussions on consumer attitudes and behaviors towards new smart home technologies and connected devices. Here are insights from Madison Saab, Channel Manager, Builder Program, Alarm.com, who participated in the panel, “ State of the Smart Home ” at the LG booth on the KBIS Show Floor. What are some of the new home services that manufacturers are...

ADT and Ford recently announced a partnership to form a new company, Canopy. The new joint venture will bring together ADT’s professional security monitoring and Ford’s AI-driven camera technology to provide customers with safety for their vehicles. Canopy will employ multi-sensor security systems with monitoring from ADT, a first for the auto industry. Canopy’s arrival follows several major residential security players expanding into car protection. In 2019, Vivint...

Parks Associates’ Connected Health Summit: Consumer Engagement and Innovation returns for the first session of 2022, Health and Home: State of the Market, on Thursday, January 20, from 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM CT. Matt Johnson , CEO, EarlySense, will be featured as an interactive panel member at 11:15 AM CT, where he and other major executives will address the impact that technology has to support various types of monitoring, wellness, and predictive healthcare outcomes. Prior to the...