Tag: Smart Devices
Smart home complexity fuels growth in pro install services
September 8, 2025Ken Showers, Managing Editor
DALLAS — As smart home technology becomes more sophisticated and widespread, homeowners are increasingly seeking professional help to install and manage their devices, according to the latest research from Parks Associates.
That trend is expected to continue, according to Elizabeth Parks, president and chief marketing officer. With connected devices growing more complex, Parks sees expanding opportunities for professional installers to play a central role in ensuring seamless integration...
Cliff Raskind joins Parks Associates as consulting director & contributing analyst
September 8, 2025SSN Staff
DALLAS — International research and consulting firm Parks Associates has announced the addition of Cliff Raskind as consulting director & contributing analyst, strengthening the firm's growing consulting practice as it enters its 40th year in business in 2026.
Raskind brings more than 15 years of experience as a noted analyst at Strategy Analytics, where he covered the wireless sector, smart devices, and IoT. He has also held corporate leadership roles, including global leadership of...
Opportunities for integrators in smart spaces, asserts Parks Associates
February 14, 2025SSN Staff
DALLAS — Changing times have provided residential smart device integrators with a chance to meet the changing needs of consumers, according to research performed by Parks Associates.
Data from the group’s Video Services Consumer Insights Dashboard reported that 46% of US internet households (roughly 56 million) are cord cutters, with 12% having never subscribed to traditional pay TV services. That’s a large market of consumers who increasingly rely on smart device integration...
'A groundbreaking leap forward' - i-PRO's new X Series turns non-AI network cameras into AI cameras
November 16, 2023SSN Staff
TOKYO – i-PRO, a provider of professional security solutions for surveillance and public safety, announced big news with its new line of artificial intelligence (AI) on-site learning cameras that turn non-AI network cameras into AI smart devices.
The new X Series enables users to teach the camera about specific objects they want to monitor. With support for up to nine AI applications, i-PRO said it is the most powerful AI camera they’ve produced to date.
“The X Series...
Latch announces Latch T and Latch Link devices
October 12, 2022SSN Staff
NEW YORK – Latch Inc. the maker of LatchOS, has introduced a pair of new products that provide new options for retrofit property operators.
Latch T,a nd Latch Link allow owners of retrofit properties the ability to update their spaces with, “…unprecedented affordability and speed” Latch said in a release. The products can upgrade a customer’s existing buildings with a universal (and mobile first) access and intercom within a matter of minutes. Combined with...
The Circle of Life
August 31, 2022Ken Showers, Managing Editor
Last week the CHIPS and Science Act was signed and meant to help jumpstart American efforts to supercharge our domestic semiconductor industry and reduce costs of labor while providing jobs to Americans. The answer to what this has to do with security, is everything. Cybersecurity, residential, industrial, national security, the whole shebang. It’s the circle of life.
Not just security either, literally everything. You’d be hard pressed to find any product not tagged as a smart device...
The smart toilet ... oh crap!
July 22, 2020Ginger Hill
The loo, bathroom, restroom, el bano, latrine, water closet, washroom, powder room, lavatory, outhouse, toilet, commode, throne, potty … whatever your special name is for this place, we all know others shouldn’t be “privy” to our private moments here. But, as technology advances and new “smart” apparatuses tempt the must-have-it-all-type of consumer, privacy wanes and cybercriminals find new ways into the more personal parts of people’s lives. Case in point,...
The art of privacy
June 10, 2020Ginger Hill
The struggle is real in this COVID-19 world we’re all living in with so many uncertainties, concerns, distracted thinking, working from home … the list goes on and on. A huge concern that employers and employees must realize is that to enable continued, gainful employment and the ability to work from home, technology/hardware has to be protected from threat actors and processes have to be in place to fend off cyberattacks.
First, thinking must shift to that of protection,...
Integration of smart devices key to driving RMR growth
December 19, 2018SSN Staff
DALLAS—New research from Parks Associates shows the integration of smart home products will be key to drive new recurring monthly revenue (RMR) growth among security companies.Parks' “360 Deep Dive: Driving RMR Growth with Add-on Products & Services” notes the security industry has experienced flattening RMR growth as adoption of interactive services has exceeded 50 percent of security subscribers.“Today, over three quarters of new security subscribers have interactive services,...