Many electronic system contractors (ESC) often know green as motorized shades, LED lighting and home energy management and monitoring. Courtney Baker sees a bigger green. “These are major areas that the dealer/installer community can affect; but being green is a lot more than just saving energy. It is also about indoor air quality, water efficiency indoor and outdoor, material selection and generally being aware of how [a client’s] home ‘should’ work.”
Michael Cogbill of ETC, a home technology firm in West Palm Beach, Fla., agrees that home tech professionals gain by looking beyond just electricity by adding water and gas into the green monitoring mix. “Water conservation is growingly important. But such monitoring also plays another role, alarming on something that might not be right with services to the home.”