
Home security market boom attracts new players
US households are paying $10 billion annually for home security services, according to a Parks Associates study, with about 20 percent of the total households covered by 2015. Value adds such as video monitoring and home automation features will expand the market by 30 percent beyond traditional security by 2016. The cable/ISP companies like Comcast, Rogers Communications, Time Warner Cable and Verizon Communication are...