Connected Home Systems and Controls

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...

IoT security and healthcare solutions company Essence Group recently won double awards at CES® 2022. The CES Innovation Awards recognizes outstanding consumer technology products across multiple categories. In the Health and Wellness category, Essence is a CES 2022 Innovation Award Honoree for VitalOn. The remote patient monitoring platform combines telecare, telehealth, and wellness capabilities that monitor and detect patient activity. In the Smart Home category, the company was...

Parks Associates ’ CONNECTIONS Summit: Smart Home Growth Strategies conference series is excited to announce GE Lighting , a Savant Company  as an Event Sponsor. Headquartered at historic NELA Park in East Cleveland, Ohio, our roots date back nearly 130 years to Thomas Edison and the invention of the world’s first light bulb. Today, as part of Savant Systems Inc. we’re bringing the future to light by ensuring brighter lives and a more sustainable world through...

Parks Associates ’ 25th annual CONNECTIONS: The Premier Connected Home Conference continued this afternoon with sessions Smart Home: Bridging Platforms and Changing the Experience Sponsored by Johnson Controls and Privacy and Security from 11 AM to 4:15 PM CT. Paul Palmer, VP Service Provider Business, Consumer Business Unit, F-Secure , was featured as an interactive panel member during the session Privacy and Security where he and other major executives addressed the...

Parks Associates ’ 25th Annual CONNECTIONS: The Premier Connected Home Conference returns for the final sessions of 2021 Europe and the Smart Home and Insurance and the Smart Home Sponsored by Notion from 11 AM to 4:15 PM CT. Markus Henkelmann, Director Smart Residential Products Yale EMEIA, ASSA ABLOY GROUP will be featured as an interactive panelist during the session Europe and the Smart Home at 12:15 PM CT, where he and other major executives will address the value...

Smart home products have yet to achieve critical mass in Europe. Parks Associates finds that 55% of UK broadband households do not own and do not plan to purchase smart home products due to lack of personal benefit. However, introductions of new connected products that bring new value is driving increased adoption and future purchase intentions. An emerging opportunity for smart home growth includes the collaboration of insurers and smart home solution providers, as 70 million US...

Adoption in smart home technology is moving beyond single endpoint solutions and the average number of devices in the home continues to climb, as today's homes boast an average of 14 internet-connected devices. Platforms are seeking to deliver a unified experience that is the "holy grail" of the smart home value proposition, and security  and privacy have become important areas for investment for device manufacturers and a major source of concern for consumers. Data from...

Parks Associates ’ CONNECTIONS: The Premier Connected Home Conference series is excited to announce Notion as a sponsor of the upcoming session  Insurance and Smart Home . Notion empowers home and property owners to be proactive in monitoring their spaces and most valued possessions. The Notion smart monitoring system is committed to helping reduce the risk and complexities of property ownership. Through partner programs, Notion helps insurance carriers, agents, and...