New study from Parks Associates shows growing interest of households with broadband connection in the UK security services of the service provider. More than a third shows a great interest in warnings to fire, flood, or open windows in their homes on smartphones, PCs and tablets. 35% are interested in offers where devices automatically adjust their settings in order to minimize power consumption.
Parks Associates is on 13 and 14 November hosts CONNECTIONS ™ Europe, the new solutions in the areas of energy and Monetisierungschancen, video services, home control and networked households are presented. Keynote speakers of the conference are Owen Hanks, GM, Mobile - Europe, YuMe, Jean C. Kiesling, Head of Business Development and Portfolio Management, German Telekom AG and Kevin Petersen, SVP, AT & T's Digital Life.
The provision of multi-screen services by providers in Europe is lagging behind the North American market, where 86% of pay-TV subscribers have access to TV Everywhere. According to Parks Associates, the figure is only 66% in Western Europe and in Eastern Europe only 21%.
"Only 16% of households with pay TV in the UK regularly use multi-screen services, but these are even more than in the U.S., where the figures are the largest providers of between 3% and 13%, Stuart Sikes, President of Parks Associates. " CONNECTIONS ™ Europe provides an excellent preparation of the participants with solutions that the consumer interest in networked solutions for households of successful services use it. "
From the article, "More than 40% of households with broadband internet access in the UK are interested in their service providers alerts on mobile devices."