Consumers prefer home monitoring fees to be part of utility bills.

Nearly two thirds of consumers are prepared to pay for a home monitoring service letting them view excess energy consumption or security settings around the house when not at home. This is according to research carried out by UK-based connected home provider Intamac.

The research carried out across consumers in the UK and North America to find out their attitudes towards remote home monitoring and control showed that there’s a keen interest in better managing energy consumption. Yet, while consumers in both regions are eager to have better remote control over their homes, paying for a separate service is another matter.

According to research from the Energy Saving Trust, consumers find energy bills the hardest to understand, with 82% of people not even knowing what energy tariff they’re on. Added to that the current recession with people wanting to conserve energy and money it’s clear that a remote home monitoring and control system appeals. The trick is to make the payment for it appealing too.

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Intamac sponsors SMART Energy Summit 2010

Parks Associates welcome Intamac as a sponsor for Smart Energy Summit: Engaging the Consumer, hosted in cooperation with Austin Energy on January 25-27.

Intamac Systems offers a unique service platform through which consumers can manage and control devices in their home or business (SOHO) using a range of different devices from mobile phones to picture frames.

Together with device manufacturers Intamacoffers a range of innovative and exciting new services for the home including Security, Video, Smart Energy, Care and Control. These services allow their partners to exploit their core capabilities to generate strong new revenue streams. They now have platforms deployed to support the rollout of these new services on three continents; Europe, North America and Australia.

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