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    1. Technology

    A smart home solution for contractors?

    Nov. 9, 2016
    Seventy percent of homeowners say they want smart products Revenues of smart home products will double in five years Goodman believes (and I can’t argue with him) that smart home products will become like the smart phone in your hand

    Dan Goodman has a good idea. Ordinarily I don’t like to hear a pitch from a vendor that’s disguised as a seminar session, but this one was different. Goodman is an MIT electrical engineer who is the co-founder of a company called Building 36 Technologies. Back before the Great Recession, Goodman was the chief technology officer of an outfit called Radio Thermostat that developed the first communicating thermostat. That was around the same time that the iPhone was invented so there most likely was not an app for that yet.

    About the Author

    Robert P. Mader

    Bob Mader is the Editorial Director for Penton's mechanical systems brands, including CONTRACTOR magazine, Contracting Business and HPAC Engineering, all of which are part of Penton’s Energy and Buildings Group. He has been  with CONTRACTOR since 1984 and with Penton since 2001. His passions are helping contractors improve their businesses, saving energy and the issue of safeguarding our drinking water. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame with an A.B. in American Studies with a Communications Concentration.

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