| > This is meant to be installed by a professional contractor, not the homeowner. And where are you going to get the contractors? Nobody is going to want to contract with you. HVAC companies go with 1, maybe 2 companies. How are you going to pull them away from Carrier, Lenox, etc who can offer volume discounts or just dump their products into the market and bleed you dry without even noticing the effect on their balance sheet? How are you going to get the plumbing/heating distributors to supply companies to stock your units and parts? You're going to distribute them yourselves? That's going to be very expensive, slow, and unreliable. How are you going to guarantee you'll still be around for the lifespan of the unit, to provide parts and technicians who know how to service the units? Puts envelope with your business plan to forehead You're going to: -lock down the protocol between the components so nobody can use standard thermostats -lock down access to the controller for diagnostics, forcing people to go with you for service -charge a fee for remote "smart" thermostat features -justify all this with some hand-wavy nonsense about using ML/AI to maximize energy efficiency or predict when the unit needs service How close am I? |