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The difference between Wi-Fi, ZigBee, and Bluetooth
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The difference between Wi-Fi, ZigBee, and Bluetooth. Mar 6, 2015 5 comments. You’ve probably heard of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, but you might be asking ZigBee? Wi-Fi, ZigBee, and Bluetooth are different protocols for wireless communication. In other words, they allow the devices in your home to talk to each other. But what’s the difference between these three protocols? ZigBee, named for the waggle dance that honey bees do to communicate with each other, is ideally suited for simple applications within the ho...
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Top 5.5 Tips to Get Your Home Hacked
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Top 55 Tips to Get Your Home Hacked. Apr 13, 2015 0 comments. For anyone who enjoys getting their sensitive personal information stolen, or who likes to become an unwitting participant in a botnet. Attack (a cyber attack where the attacker hijacks devices to send spam or to further a denial of service attack. This is the post for you! With the rise of the smart home and “ Internet of Things. Here are our 5.5 tips to make that situation worse:. 1 Don’t change the default password on any device. Castle....
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Not all Motorized Vents Are Equal – Safety Matters
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Not all Motorized Vents Are Equal Safety Matters. Feb 19, 2015 2 comments. So, let’s get into a little more detail about how exactly Ecovent monitors pressure, airflow and other HVAC system conditions and how we maximize both safety and comfort . . . Each home is different, and Ecovent understands those differences. By Pbroks13 [CC BY 3.0 (http:/ creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons. In a widely-cited survey. Airflow matters – your HVAC system needs to breathe. We completely reinv...
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When 67 degrees is not 67 degrees
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When 67 degrees is not 67 degrees. Feb 5, 2015 0 comments. I love smart thermostats. People waste a lot of energy heating and cooling their homes because they leave the heat or air conditioning on when they’re not at home. Smart thermostats help address this problem. But what if you’re at home but just not in a room? Being cold builds character! Put on a sweater! I’d reply, I’m already wearing a sweater! He’d retort, Which I paid for! Go do your homework. I was more or less in a constant state of hypothe...
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CES on the Hill 2015 – Ecovent Goes to Washington
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CES on the Hill 2015 Ecovent Goes to Washington. May 22, 2015 0 comments. Team Ecovent was fortunate enough to showcase our intelligent home zoning system to members of Congress, key Capitol Hill staff members and top media at CES on the Hill 2015. In Washington, DC. The annual event was put on by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the same organization that puts on the Consumer Electronics Show. But the more we discussed these problems, the more people got excited about Ecovent as a way to solv...
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Five Tips for Landing a Job at a Startup
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Five Tips for Landing a Job at a Startup. May 11, 2015 2 comments. If you’re going to be a robot during the interview, be a cool robot – like Wall-E or Optimus Prime. At Ecovent, we’re very upfront about our values (which drive our culture):. Execution is our constant:. We love all feedback. We listen to customers they are not dumb. We made it wrong. We show gratitude for compliments and criticism. We give timely, actionable feedback to help better others. We are courageous in accepting a...We own this c...
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Blog
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Ecovent Blog Series: How HVAC Works. Oct 10, 2015. People buy homes because of granite countertops. They sell them because of home comfort issues. CES on the Hill 2015 Ecovent Goes to Washington. May 22, 2015. Check out how Ecovent took over Capitol Hill and made Washington D.C. a little more comfortable after winning Home Automation Device of the Year at CES. Five Tips for Landing a Job at a Startup. May 11, 2015. Meet the Team: Scott Sawyer, the Cloud Guy and Data Wrangler. Apr 20, 2015. Apr 13, 2015.
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Ecovent Systems
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If the bedroom on the second floor of my townhouse was comfortable, the kitchen and living area on the first floor was frigid. The third floor was so hot I avoided it. Before Ecovent, I thought this was something I just had to live with. The thermostat on the ground floor didn’t know the temperatures on the second and third floors. Read Michael's Story About Home Comfort. See Dushan's Story About Home Diagnostics. Stay In The Loop. Stay In The Loop. What prompted you to look into Ecovent? My home has WiFi.
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Ecovent Systems
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Ecovent was so smart that it alerted me that the temperature of the air coming out of my vents was dangerously hot. Ecovent even referred me to an HVAC contractor and he told me that my furnace wasn’t calibrated prop- erly. If it weren’t for Ecovent, my furnace could have literally cracked and the outcome could have been deadly. Ecovent was able to determine that the temperature of the air coming out of the vent in Dushan’s living room was much too hot. Read Michael's Story About Home Comfort. See Dushan...
