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the technology and home automation land-
scape. Relatively new in residential markets,
Encore realized the growth in environmen-
tally conscious initiatives and, using its al-
ready tried and tested platform worked
alongside Crestron Electronics to bring it to
the forefront.
“What they’ve been able to do internally
with their business and providing products
to guys like myself, we can now turn around
and offer that to the client,” Williams said.
“With any new technology, it has to be prov-
en, it has to be able to work and it has to be
reliable.”
Still at its novelty stage to many clients who
don’t see the value in managing their energy
consumption, executing the ideas and imple-
menting them into projects means convinc-
ing people to think long-term, not short-
term.
“We can gauge any sort of energy through
the course of a day, a week, a month, a year,”
Williams said. “So the client can see anything
that’s connected to the energy management
system in terms of how much power they’ve
used, lighting control and how much energy
they’re actually physically saving, it’s pretty
incredible.”