The Next Service Provider Race: Monitoring, Access & Controls

Grab an early lead in this market by determining consumer interest and price points for new IP-based features and applications.

This consumer study measures and analyzes interest in IP home services and features:
• Home monitoring and access control services
• Energy management and monitoring
• Digital health services
• Home controls

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• Concept testing for a variety of IP services
• Inhibitors and catalysts for different combinations of services
• Three-year forecasts for subscriptions and revenues
• Current consumer activities pertinent to IP services
• Interest in core and related service features, plus price points for
additional fees

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U.S. consumers still unaware of smart grid benefits

Parks Associates research indicates over 40% of consumers unfamiliar with term “Smart Grid.”

Consumer knowledge of smart grid technologies is low, even as utilities have deployed 13 million smart meters to U.S. households. In the report, “Residential Energy Management: Opportunities for Digital Systems and Services,” only 11% of U.S. consumers are familiar with the term “Smart Grid.” This low awareness poses a risk to future deployment plans and opens the door for communications service providers to grab market share from utilities by offering their own energy monitoring solutions.

Utilities plan to deploy more than 50 million smart meters by 2014, but they need to improve their educational outreach if they want consumers to embrace this technology.

Consumers in Texas and California have filed lawsuits in which they blame smart meters for unexpected hikes in their electricity bills. The backlash from these stories threatens customer compliance with future smart grid deployments and could disrupt utility plans to create a more robust, interconnected grid that offers advanced services such as monitoring and time-of-use billing.

Parks Associates releases new report, Connected Medical Devices: Analysis and Forecasts

Parks Associates releases new report, Connected Medical Devices: Analysis and Forecasts

This report analyzes the needs for adding networking support to medical devices for home monitoring and diagnostic solutions, probe industry drivers that will help shape the industry’s growth in the future, highlight advances in silicon and biomaterial technologies, and discuss key issues that device makers and solution enablers need to address in order to clear the way for fast consumer adoption. Finally the report will profile the emerging players in this market segment.

“Networked medical devices will help transform health care delivery in a big way,” said Harry Wang, Senior Analyst, Parks Associates. “As the industry is embarking is moving toward preventive care and home-based care solutions, networking technology has spurred unique applications and opened up new opportunities for the medical device industry.”

Visit http://www.parksassociates.com/ for more information on Digital Health or Steve Harvey at steve.harvey@parksassociates.com.