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Complete Connections 2012 Coverage
Parks Associates’ Connections 2012 conference at TIA provided a comprehensive view of the connected home and beyond. Complementing the substantive session agenda was a pavilion/exhibit area that had all elements required for the connected home. The above video features 46 interviews with suppliers, service providers and analysts discussing the today’s environment as well what to…
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A Self Learning Support System
“Bringing and building smart support for devices,” is the role that John Fisher has at Troppus Software Corporation, an Echostar company. Fisher describes the role of their software in helping service provider improve the efficiency of customer support for service providers. With a multi-tier support system that is integrated at the home network level, Troppus…
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Connected Home at the Core of Telecom Success
“The connected home is no longer sort of a peripheral interest. It is core to the success and future of telecommunications services in our country and the world as well,” said Stuart Sikes, president of Parks Associates. Sikes was referring to how the co-location of the Parks Associates’ Connections Conference with TIA 2012 symbolizes the…
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Taking a Byte out of Mobile Broadband
More efficient use of mobile networks is the problem that Bytemobile solves, as described in this video interview with Mikko Disini of Bytemobile. Carriers are using Bytemobile’s technology to get more of their existing spectrum. As Disini points out, this improves carriers’ cash-flow from their existing networks, which helps fund the build-out of their next…
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All Carrot, No Stick – The Peak Time Rebate
Giving people an incentive to voluntarily reduce energy usage during peak demand is what Ted Reguly of San Diego Gas and Electric discusses in this video interview. Reguly discusses the challenges of making customers aware of the program and then giving incentives appropriate to a given customer. He suggests that the role San Diego Gas…
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Home Energy Management as Content
“The furnace and the air conditioner in the average home accounts for almost 50% of energy use, so, it’s a big-ticket item about a $1,000 a year in the average home,” according to John Steinberg, EVP of Business Development and Co-Founder of EcoFactor. EcoFactor provides an energy management service with an initial focus on heating…
