"home automation" articles

Join Parks Associates’ virtual session " Smart Spaces: Apartments, Hospitality, and Community Living ," on Thursday, November 17 at 2:00 PM CT for insights addressing the role of Wi-Fi and broadband in buildings, access and control systems, safety and security risk mitigation, energy management platforms, systems integration, and smart lighting. Panels and speakers include: State of PropTech: Apartments, Hospitality and Commercial Buildings...

Remote work and hybrid work options are here to stay. The success achieved by remote work’s “experiment” has left a permanent effect on employee priorities, and a significant percentage of the workforce will continue working remotely, driving investment in supporting connectivity hardware and software solutions. As chip shortages and other supply chain issues that constrained the sector improve, we expect a burst of consumer spending on devices, enhancing remote work...

Parks Associates’ CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference is excited to announce Johnson Controls as a sponsor of the upcoming event in 2023. Johnson Controls is a global diversified technology and multi-industrial leader serving a wide range of customers in more than 150 countries. Our Security Products team focuses on security for homes and businesses and enables smart home connectivity through the use of our secure PowerG technology. We help our customers have...

Access to real-time energy consumption data is valuable to consumers. Consumers that believe an energy-efficient home is important also find real-time energy usage data the most appealing of the energy monitoring services tested. Many value-added services that can be built on top of energy data are highly appealing. Understanding which products consume the most power and which continue to consume power consumption even when off represents knowledge desired by many consumers....

Join leading industry executives and analysts for a special virtual roundtable discussion, State of Commercial and SMB Security: Video is the New Perimeter , on Thursday, October 13, 11:00 am–12:15 pm CT, as part of the 2022 CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference experience. The virtual roundtable, sponsored by Alarm.com, addresses the growing role of video verification and analytics in security solutions for commercial and small-to-medium business. Parks...

CEDIA Expo 2022 hosted companies in Dallas, Texas last week from the home entertainment industries introducing new products and solutions in smart home/security, connected entertainment/gaming, and video/audio networking. The three-day convention also featured long-anticipated announcements relating to Matter, a new connectivity standard that aims to revolutionize the connected home experience. Parks Associates latest consumer survey work of 10,000 internet households shows that now...

On September 14 th -16 th 2022,Nice North America held its Media Day event at the company headquarters in Carlsbad, California, just outside of San Diego. Nice Group is an Italian-based company, but the recent finalization of its Nortek Control acquisition has expanded the market presence of the Nice North America branch of the company, by providing a more extensive portfolio. In a press release on September 28 th , coinciding with the annual CEDIA Expo, the Deputy CEO...

2021 and 2022 have been healthy years for the home security industry, and new competition is changing the landscape. Self-installed systems now represent about half of all security systems owned or 16% of all US broadband households. Taken together, these metrics underline the growth of the self-install, professionally monitored market for major players. Understanding the complexity of the market is important as the lines continue to blur with offerings from traditional players...