Energy Management Systems Allow Homeowners to Monitor, Control Energy Usage

Energy management systems put homeowners in the driver’s seat.

Available in a range of capability levels, sustainability dashboards give consumers real-time feedback and control of their home's energy.

 

Wiring and Cable

  • Multifamily Apartment Operators Look to Boost Cell Phone Signals

    Multifamily apartment operators and developers are investigating cell tower and distributed antenna system installs as a competitive advantage to provide residents with better cell phone receptipon.

     
  • Multifamily Technology Sneak Peak: Verizon Concierge

    As Verizon Enhanced Communities deploys FiOS into a growing number of multifamily units (the company is aiming to optic into some 5 million apartments by the end of the year), the possibilities of exploiting bandwidth for more than just resident voice, video, and data service are becoming readily...

     
  • Yardi Acquires Energy Billing Systems

    Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Yardi Systems is preparing to announce its acquisition of Colorado Springs, Colo.-based Energy Billing Systems (EBS), company vice president of marketing Brad Setser confirmed this week in an exclusive interview with Multifamily Executive.

     
  • Networkers' Super Data Pipelines Ease Bandwidth Demand

    From Facebooking Gen Yers to aging-in-place Boomers who want to video chat with their grandchildren, the broadband hunger among residents seems insatiable. Whether existing infrastructure is sizable enough to handle the data stream is up for debate, but fiber-optic network installers, including...

     
  • Channel Surfing: IPTV Invades Apartments

    At four communities managed by Milestone Management, a Dallas-based third-party manager, it was time for a change. TV programming at the 20-plus-year-old properties had been piped in by the regional cable provider for years, but residents were beginning to seek out more options. For Milestone's...

     
 

Construction Technology

Engineering

  • Sares-Regis Addresses Wildfire Damage at California Property

    Caught off-guard by California wildfires in mid-November, the owner of The Cascades apartment property in Corona is focused on assessing...

     
  • Sares-Regis Addresses Wildfire Damage at California Property

    Caught off-guard by California wildfires in mid-November, the owner of The Cascades apartment property in Corona is focused on assessing...

     
  • Io Piazza

    Shirlington Village in Arlington, Va., is undergoing a transformation, shifting from rows of parking spaces to higher-density development.

     
  • City Icon: One Rincon Hill

    San Francisco's Rincon Hill neighborhood has so far failed to achieve the prominence of the nearby neighborhoods of Nob Hill or Telegraph...

     
  • Two for One: Q1

    It's all about the view at Q1, a residential tower with ground-floor retail that looms over Surfers Paradise, one of the hottest beaches in...