The “connected home” is the integration of various networking and connectivity solutions that encompass a number of applications such as home automation, security, surveillance, lighting controls, energy management, broadband access, and home entertainment. Threshold’s solutions make it radically easy and affordable for “do-it-yourself” consumers to build sophisticated connected home applications.

Today most connected home solutions are stand-alone applications that are difficult to integrate without the use of professional installation services. The bulk of today’s market is centered on professionally installed systems that cost $10,000 and up for the hardware and installation.

Threshold has developed a number of integrated solutions addressing this market that can be easily installed by consumers without the need for professional installation. Threshold’s systems are not only dramatically easier to use, they are also dramatically less expensive, costing hundreds of dollars for a complete system as opposed to many thousands of dollars.

Here is what some of the leading analysts and market research firms are saying that is especially relevant to Threshold’s focus on the connected home market:

• "In 2012, there will be a total possible market of 276 million Home Area Network (HAN) devices worldwide." -- ON World Research
  
  
• "Worldwide home LAN hardware shipments will surpass 500 million in 2010" -- In-Stat Research
  
  
• "Revenue from home systems integration and installation will increase from $9.8 billion in 2007 to $17.4 billion in 2012" -- Parks Associates
  
  
• "The market for home controls is roughly $3.5 billion in the U.S. in 2007, headed to $6 billion by 2012." -- Parks Associates
  
  
• "Driven by new regulation and a global energy crisis, utilities will spend $1.6 billion on Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology for smart metering and demand response in 2011." -- ON World Research
  
  
• “Revenue from home networking related services will generate up to US$3.5 billion annually for cable and telco service operators by 2011” -- Research and Markets Report
  
  
• “Home security systems (both monitored and unmonitored) will reach 28 to 30 percent household penetration by 2010.” -- Parks Associates