iMonitorEnergy.com: Controlling indoor climate from afar
Mark Moore knows what you’ve done to the office thermostat.Yes, you.
You felt warm, he says, so you turned down the thermostat and made all your co-workers cold.
The controls are locked in a plastic case? That didn’t stop you. You straightened out a paper clip and snaked it through a vent to change the setting.
Moore is a 30-year veteran of the heating and air-conditioning business with a unique perspective. From his company’s high-tech control room in Lake Forest, he can see the temperature at each vent and each thermostat in 564 buildings in Orange, Los Angeles and San Diego counties.
At iMonitorEnergy.com’s headquarters, he can’t actually see you fiddling with the controls, but he can visualize the results – shivering workers and rising electricity bills.
“It’s the woman who’s going through menopause. Or it’s the guy who’s running around, carrying boxes, getting hot.” That worker turns down the thermostat, Moore says. “Then people start putting heaters under their desks because they’re cold.”
To combat such problems, Moore combines psychology with technical expertise.
Video: Visit the control room, get a lesson in self-restraint
