Industry research identifies new use cases in energy, health, security, and smart home for professionally monitoring services in the connected home

Research firm Parks Associates forecasts total professional monitoring revenue for the US residential security sector will total $15.74 billion in 2020, with smart home services accounting for $1.2 billion. IoT: Extending Professional Monitoring for New Revenue addresses how innovative companies are driving new revenue by extending professional monitoring services beyond residential security to new use cases in the connected home.

“The number of connected devices continues to expand year-over-year, and 2019 concluded on a particularly strong note for the security industry,” said Brad Russell, Research Director, Connected Home, Parks Associates. “Security system adoption reached one-third of all US broadband households at the end of the year. Consumers now have an average of 11.4 connected devices in their homes, which opens multiple opportunities to extend monitoring services as well as different varieties of both professional monitoring and MIY (monitor-it-yourself).”

The firm notes the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic fallout create a more challenging landscape in 2020, specifically as consumers will look to reduce household spending. Parks Associates surveys show consumers recognize and value the safety, security, and economic benefits of monitoring services, so companies can build off of this recognized value, with the right marketing and pricing strategies.

“Central monitoring is a high-margin business, and many stations have excess monitoring capacity, driving the industry to expand its value proposition beyond the standard security offering,” Russell said. “As more aspects of daily life get connected, and as people spend more time in the home, new opportunities emerge that cross multiple industries, including energy usage monitoring, risk mitigation from flood and fire, monitoring the health and safety of aging relatives, tracking of valuables, and appliance maintenance monitoring.”

IoT: Extending Professional Monitoring for New Revenue profiles innovative central monitoring stations that drive the market, identifies consumer preferences and willingness to pay for monitoring services, and describes the value propositions for monitoring a variety of smart products within the connected home.

For information about the IoT: Extending Professional Monitoring for New Revenue, contact [email protected]. To schedule an interview with an analyst or to request specific research data, please contact Rosey Ulpino at [email protected], 972.996.0233.

About Parks Associates: Parks Associates, a woman-founded and certified business, is an internationally recognized market research and consulting company specializing in emerging consumer technology products and services. Founded in 1986, Parks Associates provides business intelligence and research services through its proprietary methodologies developed over decades, including quarterly surveys of 10,000 internet households.

The company's expertise crosses many industries: home security and smart home, streaming video, broadband and pay-TV services, digital media and platforms, gaming, Wi-Fi and home networks, connected health, support, consumer electronics, home control systems, energy management, and tech solutions for the multi-dwelling (MDU), small-to-medium business (SMB), and commercial building markets.

Each year, Parks Associates brings thousands of leaders together for its webinars and annual events. The firm hosts the annual executive research and strategy conferences CONNECTIONS™, Connected Health Summit, Smart Energy Summit, Smart Spaces, and Future of Video. https://www.parksassociates.com
 

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