This year's first episode of the Surge Series, the official podcast of the Illinois Science and Energy Innovation Foundation (ISEIF), delved into these questions from the perspective of the everyday consumer. Hosts Clare Butterfield and Uzma Noormohamed talked with Parks Associates' Eddie Accomando, an expert in applied anthropology, market research, and technology adoption whose recent report provides a comprehensive analysis of the trends that are contributing to adoption of home energy management products.
From the article "Four Clues To The Future Of Home Energy Technology" by www.smartgridnews.com
Overall globally, Parks calculates that there are more than 265 million households worldwide and that there will be more than 400 million OTT video service subscriptions by 2022. While Netflix, Amazon...
Amazon's servers were down for a large part of the morning on the day the outage occurred, taking Alexa-powered devices out of commission. Incidents like this may occur more often as the popularity of...
Robot vacuum cleaners represent a thin market sliver, according to Parks Associates. They can be found in just 5-6 percent of broadband households. "It's not a breakout product, but it's far and ah...
It also hopes to bring new consumers into the market. The US smart home market has long been plagued by slow growth, largely due to device and platform fragmentation and high prices. However, consumer...
