Tado, the German startup selling a connector kit to make your heater smart, now offers a service to customers that will preemptively check their heating system ahead of the cool days of fall, seeking to warn consumers of a problem before they need the heat. Tado calls the service Cares, and will offer it for free to existing customers.
As tado describes it, the service will run a diagnostic on a customer’s boiler during the late summer months and notify the homeowner if anything is wrong, so the homeowner can get it fixed before the cold arrives. Tado will also link the homeowner to a professional who can fix the boiler to make the process as seamless as possible. In this situation the homeowner wins and the repairman does as well by filling in a quiet time on his schedule with repairs ahead of a seasonal rush (although in Texas he would be just as rushed fixing air conditioning units right now). This is exactly what companies like GE and Cisco are promising customers as part of their industrial internet efforts, and it’s high time the home starts getting some of that same love Read More
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