Amana^â brand Heating & Air Conditioning dealers can now give homeowners a free smart home bundle if they purchase select Amana brand indoor comfort systems between March and May 2019.

This product converts traditional motors, pumps, and mounted bearings into smart, wirelessly connected devices. It measures key parameters from the surface of the equipment, which can be used to gain meaningful information on the condition and performance of the equipment. This enables users to identify inefficiencies within their system and to reduce risks related to operation and maintenance.

Location isn’t everything, but it helps. Just ask homeowners selling their property, or restaurant owners. In the HVAC world, it also rings true for some motors and drives and the professionals who work with them. That includes contractors, even if maybe not in the way that one would expect. Some current and next-gen drives will make location matter in a new way: Contractors can spend more time further away from the equipment itself.

Is it possible that buildings of the future will be a strategic asset — that they will operate in an intelligent way to be productive facility managers and monetizable for real estate owners? Is it possible that the traditionally conservative and risk-averse building and construction industry would leverage the latest technologies, such as the IoT, big data, cloud computing, data analytics, deep learning, and artificial intelligence, for the benefits of saving energy, reducing operational expenditures, increasing occupancy comfort, and — most importantly — meeting increasingly stringent global regulations and sustainability standards?