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Lights, Shades and Temperature Control – Automatically
According to a newly released Parks Associates’ report, , IP-Based Home Monitoring: Security, one-third of U.S. households find the idea of remotely turning on and off lights, controlling thermostats and appliances via web-enabled devices to be very appealing. Matthew Swatsky of Lutron demonstrates what this looks like by remotely controlling lights, shades and temperature control at Parks Associates…
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Protected: Finding Success in the Cloud
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Protected: The Social Network of Devices
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Leading the Orchestra
Last week’s announcement by Affinegy of their Home Portal v2.0 software and related announcement that Cablevision is deploying it, is further evidence of the growing importance of the converged home to service providers’ business plans. We caught up with Affinegy CEO, Melissa Simpler at the Parks Associates Connections conference, where she discusses Home Portal v2.0. In…
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Impressions of Connections
The human user interface/gesture recognition, multi-screen access to content and the cloud were three things that made an impression on Kurt Scherf, VP of Parks Associations, at the 2011 Connections Summit. Demonstrations of these technologies at the Tuesday night panel set the tone for this multi-day event. As Scherf points out, the value of the…
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Pollution Funding & More
Bill Ablondi of Parks Associates provides an overview of some of the key take-aways from the 2011 CONNECTIONS™ conference in Santa Clara, CA. From “Funding Pollution”, to the idea of shifting a product or service from a “nice to have” to a “must-to-have”, Ablondi provides kernels of the knowledge shared at this year’s event. ViodiTV coverage…
