Residential Remote Monitoring Report - Full Version - 2020

Blake Kozak

Senior Principal Analyst, Smart Home

With 10 years of experience in consumer electronics and security markets, Blake Kozak delivers market forecasts and strategic analysis of smart home ecosystems, connecting the dots between device manufacturers, services, and adjacent markets. 

At Omdia, Blake produces reports and insights that encompass critical market signifiers, such as industry revenue intake, the market’s performance over time, and historical and new business models, and opportunities for expansion and growth. Prior to joining Omdia (formerly IHS Markit), Blake had been the author of numerous syndicated reports including intruder alarms, electronic physical access control, access control as a service (ACaaS), perimeter security, and residential security. Blake is also a regular speaker at industry events.

Before joining Omdia, Blake managed the access control system of Ohio University and interned with a US congressional leader in Washington, DC.

Anna Sliwon-Stewart

Senior Analyst, Physical Security

Anna leads research for the intruder alarms and remote monitoring services intelligence service. She advises companies on current growth opportunities in the market, as well as strategic industry shifts that will affect security and building technology portfolios. 

Anna joined Omdia in 2016. Her areas of expertise include home and commercial security, transformative technologies including IoT, artificial intelligence (AI), and cellular protocols as they relate to building technologies, as well as homeland security. Over her career she has authored reports on security and building technologies such as AI in smart buildings, ANPR and detection sensors, access control as a service, door automation, and explosives, weapons, and contraband detection equipment. She also managed the smart buildings and lighting intelligence services. She holds a master's degree in intelligence and international security and a bachelor’s degree in international relations and security studies.