Connected Home Systems and Controls

Parks Associates ' 25th annual CONNECTIONS: The Premier Connected Home Conference virtual series continues with the upcoming session Supporting Remote Workers with a Smarter Home on May 12 from 12:30 PM to 2:45 PM CT. In this session, industry leaders will address how service providers and others in the market can best meet the evolving needs of businesses and employees in this new world of remote work. Parks Associates ’ new report, Security Adjacencies: Building on Peace...

Authors: Jennifer Kent, Avni Mithal It’s no secret that fragmentation plagues the smart home . Due to an incredibly diverse ecosystem of products, plus numerous competing communication protocols, seamless device-to-device interaction is difficult to achieve. For instance, 40% of smart home device owners who have had technical problems with a smart home device report having difficulty getting the device to interact with other devices in their home. Device-to-device integration...

  NVIDIA is currently holding its GPU Tech Conference 2021, featuring over 1,500 sessions on AI innovations and applications. The keynote yesterday celebrated company achievements as CEO Jensen Huang describes NVIDIA’s work "bringing AI from computer science to computer products:” NVIDA GPUs developed for gaming now are also being used for modeling major infrastructure and engineering projects NVIDA DGX technology is used in AI research...

  Consumers want smart home products that are easy to set up, communicate reliably, and are secure. Now, product manufacturers and service providers are facing a variety of design and strategy decisions to achieve superior user experience.  Selecting the best communication protocols for the job is one of the most impactful decisions solution providers make, as they evaluate the tradeoffs in cost, range, battery life, ecosystem maturity, and data security...

Parks Associates estimates that across the US, 15 million households are currently mobile-only – which means that household members have mobile data plans but do not have a home internet subscription. Of this 15 million, 12 million were at one point fixed broadband subscribers. That is, for one reason or another, they cancelled their home broadband service. Some of the most common reasons are included in the chart below:     2020 and its...

OSSIACO , a leader in the smart home energy market, will be a Gold sponsor for Parks Associates' Smart Energy Summit this year. Sitting at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home and customer-centric utilities, OSSIACO leverages its breakthroughs in power electronics to develop elegant smart home appliances that let you power your life on your terms. The dcbel™ family of EVSE products, entirely designed and manufactured by OSSIACO, are the...

The CONNECTIONS Summit at CES is going online this year! Parks Associates' CONNECTIONS Summit at CES is an annual research and industry event and will be held on January 14, 2021. It features commentary, insight, and debate on consumer and industry trends, new business models and technologies, growth opportunities, and successful market strategies. Joshua Locke, Vice President of Essence USA and a speaker at the summit, discusses senior market solutions ahead of the event:...

Parks Associates is holding the CONNECTIONS Summit at CES online on January 14. This  executive event features panel discussions on the smart home, Internet of Things ( IoT ), and connected entertainment, analyzing trends and implications for connected consumers and opportunities for companies to build new revenues and innovative business models. Ahead of the conference, we asked  Oz Yildirim, EVP & GM Americas Business Unit at Airties , to share his insights with...