Providing Market Intelligence for 40 Years

In The News

How IoT Technology Is Transforming Africa

According to research by Parks Associates, as much as 70% of security dealers currently install or plan to install some type of interactive smart home devices or systems.

This technology also assists to efficiently manage security operations that rely on guards, by monitoring where the guards are and the status of their patrol.

Recently, Trinity finished a large scale project for the Johannesburg City Parks installing a guard monitoring system installation and running training on the the TrinitySMART system.

From the article "How IoT Technology Is Transforming Africa" by Vicky Sidler.

Previously In The News

How Parks Associates Helped Shape 30 Years of Smart Home Innovation

In a video interview from CONNECTIONS 2026 in the Silicon Valley, Elizabeth Parks reflects on the evolution of the connected home market, the growing role of AI and why the dealer channel still ma...

TV Becomes a Growth Channel for Commerce

“Streaming video and connected TV in particular absolutely tend to outperform linear TV,” said Michael Goodman, a senior contributing analyst with Parks Associates, a Dallas-based market research...

OpenAI Eyes AI Agent Phone, Kuo Says

“OpenAI is not a hardware company and must prove its phone performs well against the competition in terms of memory, camera quality, size, weight, screen responsiveness — all of that can be a chal...

The Smart Money: The Evolution of Residential Access Control

According to Parks Associates’ research, ownership of smart door locks reached approximately 11% of U.S. internet households in Q2 2025, and smart garage door openers have reached the same adoption le...