Not only are the right data-driven leaders required, HVAC contractors also need to go through the necessary process to build a data culture within their company.
Sensibo produces smart heating and cooling devices and IAQ monitoring products, allowing users to control their heating and cooling equipment with artificial intelligence, data, and sensors, while taking advantage of air quality data to optimize equipment use and reduce energy consumption.
Software company Bluon is betting that artificial intelligence, or AI, can help solve the labor shortage — and pass along decades of knowledge from retiring HVAC techs to the next generation.
AI tools, such as Bluon’s MasterMechanic, could make a big dent in another aspect of the labor issue: the wisdom lost as older, highly skilled workers leave the industry.
HVACR distributors today are introducing software to meet contractors where they’re at and to fit the way they place electronic orders. At the same time, they’re working to maintain the personal relationships they’ve built with those customers.
The average tech thinks the service department is a giant money maker when in reality it is typically the least profitable part of a contractor’s business.
The upgrades are the most recent step in The New Flat Rate’s evolution as it seeks ways to help home services contractors improve the sales process and customer service, the company said.