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Residential Security

09/08/2025

Smart Home and Security Tracker 2025 - August Update

This product is part of the Smart Home and Security Market Tracker service. Contact Parks Associates for info on subscribing to this service. The Smart Home and Security Market Tracker provides mar...

Quantified Consumer

Entertainment Content: Video, Audio, Gaming

09/05/2025

Connected TV Platform Expansion: Gaming, Fitness, Smart Home

TV operating system (TV OS) platform vendors and TV OEMs are looking for new use cases and applications to drive TV sales, advertising revenue, and uptake of related services. With widespread adoption...

Quantified Consumer

Entertainment Content: Video, Audio, Gaming

09/04/2025

Gen AI in Media & Entertainment

Generative AI has captured the imaginations of companies and investors worldwide – and the skepticism of consumers. This study tests consumer interest and willingness to engage with AI and generative...

Trackers

Video Services: OTT, Pay TV

09/04/2025

Streaming Video Tracker - North American Update: August 2025

The Streaming Video Tracker keeps companies informed of all major North American OTT services, providing details on current players, new entrants, and trends in the OTT video services market. Services...

White Paper

MDU Research

09/04/2025

A Guide to Connectivity Innovations in Multifamily Housing

This white paper explores key connectivity options available for multifamily properties, including legacy bulk and retail service, managed Wifi, and the increasingly popular trend of instant activatio...

Consumer Insights Dashboard

Smart Home Devices, Automation, Controls

08/15/2025

Smart Home Dashboard 2Q 2025

The Smart Home Dashboard visualizes the most important metrics informing the strategic decision making of companies across the connected home market.   Consumer Insights Dashboards present survey-b...

Trackers

Residential Security

08/07/2025

Smart Home and Security Tracker 2025 - July Update

This product is part of the Smart Home and Security Market Tracker service. Contact Parks Associates for info on subscribing to this service. The Smart Home and Security Market Tracker provides mar...

Trackers

Residential Security

07/31/2025

Smart Home and Security Tracker 2025: Q2 Platforms, Products, and Forecasts

This product is part of the Smart Home and Security Market Tracker service. Contact Parks Associates for info on subscribing to this service. The Smart Home and Security Market Tracker provides mar...

Consumer Insights Dashboard

Residential Security

07/30/2025

Residential Security Dashboard 2Q 2025

The Residential Security Dashboard visualizes the most important metrics informing the strategic decision making of companies across the residential security market. Consumer Insights Dashboards pr...

White Paper

Smart Home Devices, Automation, Controls

07/29/2025

Smart Home Evolution: Unlocking Value

This white paper explores the progress of the smart home industry, highlighting key milestones, emerging consumer demands, and the increasing role of artificial intelligence. The research highlights t...

Webinar

Independent Living

07/21/2025

Ambient Sensing: Next Frontier in Senior Care

As the US population ages, more than 25 million households are stepping into caregiving roles with nearly 10 million supporting seniors who live independently but still need assistance.  Currently, on...

Webinar

Video Services: OTT, Pay TV

07/24/2025

Consolidation & Aggregation: Transformation of Streaming Services & Technologies

Streaming services are undergoing rapid consolidation and aggregation, reshaping the competitive environment. This session explores the strategic mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and technologies...

Webinar

MDU Research

07/24/2025

PropTech, Broadband, and the Future of Multifamily Living

This session explores the latest developments in proptech, including highlights from Parks Associates latest research spotlighting innovative companies enabling Smart Spaces.  Parks Assoicates team wi...

Blogs

CONNECTIONS

COVID-19

smart home

consumer electronics

Consumer Electronics Devices

09/10/2025

Smart Speakers – Gateway to Smart Home Adoption

Smart speakers can present strong use cases for smart home devices to the consumer. By bundling smart speakers with smart plugs, smart light bulbs, or smart thermostats, companies can deliver a guided...

connected CE

smart home

smart TV

audio

Entertainment

09/10/2025

Smart Speakers and Smart Displays Continue to Grow in Adoption

Smart speakers and smart displays entered 2020 as one of the strongest-performing new consumer electronics categories since tablets and smartphones. Their upward trajectory has continued, now reaching...

CONNECTIONS

home automation

home networks

smart home

Wi-Fi

cloud services

interoperability

Smart Spaces

Broadband/Communications

09/10/2025

Deploying IoT in Smart Spaces: Challenges and Best Practices

Smart spaces can be defined in many different ways. Parks Associates defines “smart spaces” as physical locations, equipped with networked devices and sensors-based solutions, that give individuals da...

smart home

home automation

home safety

appliances

Smart Home

09/10/2025

Smart Appliance Update

Smart major appliances emerged in the US market in 2011. However, like smart home devices, adoption rates for different categories of smart appliances remain fairly low. Eleven percent of US broadband...

energy

smart home

appliances

Smart Home

09/10/2025

Consumers Are Embracing Smart Appliances - Energy Management is Highly Valued

Smart major appliances - refrigerators, clothes washers, microwaves, clothes dryers, dishwashers, ovens, water heaters, air conditioning units and range/cooktops - emerged in the US market in 2011. Ho...

energy

home automation

home networks

smart home

Smart Home

09/10/2025

Smart Lighting: Enhancing Smart Home Use Cases

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 ex...

home automation

Internet of Things

smart home

Samsung

Smart Home

09/10/2025

Smart Kitchens: The Next Evolution of the Smart Home

Smart kitchens represent the next wave of the smart home evolution. For the past two years, large appliance manufacturers, including GE Appliances, Samsung, LG, and Whirlpool have used the consumer el...

smart home

home automation

IoT

Smart Energy Summit

smart energy devices

Press Releases

09/10/2025

Challenges and Opportunities of Integrating a Comprehensive Energy Solution

Smart home systems providers vary in their strategies to provide home energy management solutions. At Smart Energy Summit, speakers on the session “Integrating Comprehensive Energy Management Solution...

Apple

Google

security

smart home

Smart Home

09/10/2025

Importance of the Smart Home Controller and the Platform

Smart home products may use a centralized control architecture, a distributed control architecture, or enable both. Consequently, consumers may be able to control their smart products individually, or...

smart home

apps

IoT

connected home

Press Releases

09/10/2025

Connectivity is a disruptive force for smart home products

Smart home products are entering the market via two main paths: smart home product manufacturers and smart home service providers. Manufacturers are adding connectivity to products to provide differen...

smart home

home automation

Smart Energy Summit

energy monitoring solutions

Press Releases

09/10/2025

Energy Providers Could Dominate the Smart Home and Energy Management Market

Smart home product and service providers are changing in many ways. Smart home controllers and smart home platforms are adding more networks, more intelligence, more data analytics, and more value-add...

COVID-19

energy

Smart Energy Summit

Energy

09/10/2025

Home Services: Rethinking Utility Revenue Models

Smart home industry players recognize an opportunity to offer home energy and HVAC monitoring services built around smart thermostats, as well as added connectivity in HVAC systems. New services are a...

smart home

security

smartphones

home automation

security dealers

Press Releases

09/10/2025

Residential Security Market Growth Driven by Smart Home Technologies and the IoT

Smart home features are helping security dealers increase monthly revenues and also attract new customers. According to research from Parks Associates, 70% of U.S. security dealers currently install o...

CONNECTIONS

energy

smart home

IoT

Energy

09/10/2025

Energy Management: Opportunities in the Smart Home

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, h...

smart home

security

MDUs

Telecompetitor

In The News

09/10/2025

Report: Smart Homes are Home Sweet Home for MDUs

Smart home devices are very popular and can contribute mightily to satisfaction with multi dwelling unit living, according to a white paper from Parks Associates and Cox Communities. In July, 2021,...

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