One of the things I love about the HVAC industry is its capacity to change. Whether it’s wholesale leadership changes at major manufacturing organizations, code changes, the adoption of new rules governing refrigerant use, energy efficiency, carbon footprints, surviving consolidation, and so on — the HVAC industry seems able to really pick up the ball and run to make things work.
It wasn’t that long ago the sea change washing over this country was the green movement. And while that movement is still going strong, it doesn’t eat up as much digital and physical ink as it did not too long ago. Now, the item grabbing headlines across the world is the Internet of Things (IoT). Briefly, for those of you who may not have felt the spray from this sea change, this is like smart-home, smart-grid, and smart-city concepts on steroids.