Apartment Therapy -
15 Mar 2015 14:45
It's been a pretty chilly winter, and not everyone in has reliable heat. Heat Seek NYC is a nonprofit that uses Internet-connected thermostats and a companion web app that logs the temperature every hour. Using $25,000 they won from the NYC BigApps competition, they have been running a small-scale pilot program with sensors in 21 apartments in four different buildings. In just this small test, Heat Seek has recorded 5,000 violations of the city's heating laws.
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