ARGUS BLOG POSTS
The Death of Iris and Other Smart Home Observations
Well, we all survived another Black Friday. Smart Home Products factored heavily into the retail promotions of Amazon, Best Buy and others. One CyberMonday surprise was the announcement that Lowe’s has finally decided to stop being a service provider and is actively looking for a buyer for their Iris ecosystem. Lowe’s attempts to build their […]
Smart Cloud or Smart Home: Stumbling Our Way Around Bad Actors in Consumer IoT
As the sun sets, I ask Alexa to turn on the deck lights so my wife and I can enjoy some time together after we tuck our children in. When I do that, the whole sequence looks like the following: Alexa takes my voice and digitizes it The digitized command is sent to the Amazon […]
Q1 2018 Smart Home Provider Scorecard: Consumers love Xfinity more than Vivint after a brief affair with ADT
I was reviewing the NPS scores for the big three Smart Home Providers, ADT, Vivint and Xfinity for Q1 2018. You might recall that ADT had some issues with a system upgrade in June of 2017 that caused a flood of frustrated users taking to the airwaves, dropping ADT’s already low NPS into the bowels […]
Past Events
March 10, 2015
Wearables TechCon
Founder and CEO of Argus Insights, Dr. John Feland, will be delivering a keynote address entitled Solving the Sock Drawer Problem: How are we Failing Consumers? On Tuesday, March 10, 2015, at Wearables TechCon in Santa Clara, CA. Argus Insights has learned countless lessons about what needs to be done to solve the pervasive issue of having wearable devices end up in the consumer\’s sock drawer.
More info can be found here.
February 26, 2015
Argus Insights Webinar
Argus Insights will wade through the millions of juicy social snippets to identify which technology is poised to be significant, to help listeners make sense of the 1,900 plus exhibitions before the show even starts. This webinar will include predictions of what brands, technology offerings, and announcements will be driving mindshare during the show.
For webinar slides, please click here.
January 27, 2015
Argus Insights Webinar
Are you interested in knowing who the current winners and losers are in the battle for mindshare in the SDN/NFV market? We’re hosting a free 30 minute webinar to answer that question on January 27 at 10am PST. It will be hosted by founder and CEO of Argus Insights, Dr. John Feland. He will provide concrete insights that will aid you in planning your 2015 strategy and investments, and influence your preparation for the Mobile World Conference 2015 (March 2, Barcelona, Spain).
For webinar slides, please click here.
December 3, 2014
Embedded Vision Alliance Q4 2014 Member Meeting
Consumer Adoption of Embedded Vision in the Internet of Things: What Works and What Frustrates
Argus Insights CEO Dr. John Feland will be one of the speakers at this event
More info for the event can be viewed here
November 17, 2014
Argus Insights Webinar
Consumer Beware: Black Friday Bargains Do Not Always Equal Brilliant Buy
Argus Insights CEO Dr. John Feland will be hosting a free 1-hour webinar on the dos and don’ts of this season’s holiday purchases covering the markets of: 2-in-1s, laptops, tablets, wearables, smartphones and appliances.
View the webinar here
November 12, 2014
Telecom Council
Argus Insights CEO Dr. John Feland will be one of the speakers at this conference.
“Deep Dive: Intersection of Entertainment and Telecom”
Telecom Council Deep Dives provide a unique opportunity for telecom and wireless executives to network with decision makers in the space, review some new technologies, contribute to the discussion, and get answers from topic experts. This month, 75+ of your telecom colleagues will dive deeper into Entertainment – in true Telecom Council style, this is sure to be a very interactive discussion with top-notch networking to help you build your relationships in this segment.
View the presentation slides here
Argus Webinars
Internet of Things Market Narratives
Internet of Things Market Narratives: Webinar – May 2016 from John Feland Capture of our oversubscribed webinar on 4 May 2016 focused on what is top of mind within the market narrative on the Internet of Things, including Big Data, Smart Home, Wearables, Smart Grid, Privacy, Security and more. [themify_button style=”med orange rect” link=”https://d1yoaun8syyxxt.cloudfront.net/wx168-036c6213-8929-458b-9999-40bde458b1f3-v2″ target=”_blank” ]Download […]
Capturing A High Growth Market: SDN/NFV
Capturing A High Growth Market: SDN/NFV Webinar Jan 2015 from John Feland The battle is on for market share, position, alignment, and the right technical solutions in the Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) markets. Buyers have shifted their behaviors, and now seek information to direct their investments. Social media, events, industry analysts, […]
Argus Presentations
John Feland, CEO and Founder of Argus Insights, presents the “Overcoming Barriers to Consumer Adoption of Vision-enabled Products and Services” tutorial at the May 2015 Embedded Vision Summit.
Visual intelligence is being deployed in a growing range of consumer products, including smartphones, tablets, security cameras, laptops (especially with Intel’s RealSense push), and even smartwatches. The demos are always cool. But does vision work for regular consumers? Do consumers see vision as a value add or just another feature to be ignored?
In this talk, John investigates the best and worst of consumer product embedded vision implementations as told by real consumers, based on Argus Insights’ extensive portfolio of consumer data. John examines where current products fall short of consumers’ needs. And, he illuminates successful implementations to show how their vision capabilities create value in the lives of consumers. Case studies will include examples from Dropcam, Intel RealSense, HTC’s M8, and vision-enabled drones such as the DJI Phantom 2 Vision+.
Argus Case Studies
Samsung Case Study
Argus Insights Case Study: Samsung Discovers Their True Competition to Improve Sales “Big screen TVs were the gift to give during the holiday season of 2011. Samsung hired Argus Insights to investigate consumer reactions to their big screen TVs (60″ and larger) during this time. Prevailing wisdom was that Sony was the competitor to beat. However, […]