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Southeast HVAC News
Carrier, ecobee Expand
Strategic Relationship.
Carrier Corp. has made a minority
equity investment in ecobee, Inc., marking an expansion in the
parties' strategic relationship following their collaboration to
create the new Wi-Fi-enabled Carrier® Côr™ thermostat. ecobee
created the world's first Wi-Fi-enabled smart thermostat, delivering
increased comfort and energy savings to customers. Carrier, the
world's leader in high-technology heating, ventilating and
air-conditioning solutions, is a part of UTC Building & Industrial
Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX).
"The Carrier team is excited by the opportunities this relationship
will provide," said Chris Nelson, president, North American HVAC,
Carrier. "By bringing together the strengths of both companies, from
Carrier's experience in manufacturing world-class heating and
cooling products to ecobee's leadership and innovation in smart
thermostats, our customers will benefit as we provide even more
advanced offerings for the smart home of today and tomorrow." Story
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"Being selected as
the thermostat technology to power the Carrier Côr thermostat is
significant validation and testament to the pioneering
technology ecobee has been developing since 2007," said Stuart
Lombard, CEO, ecobee. "This strategic relationship with Carrier
will help put ecobee's energy-saving technology into more homes
across America."
Terms and details of Carrier's equity investment in ecobee were
not disclosed.
For more information about Carrier's home comfort solutions,
visit
www.carrier.com/homecomfort or follow @CarrierAtHome on
Twitter.
About Carrier
Founded by the inventor of modern air conditioning, Carrier is
the world's leader in high-technology heating, air-conditioning
and refrigeration solutions. Carrier experts provide sustainable
solutions, integrating energy-efficient products, building
controls and energy services for residential, commercial,
retail, transport and food service customers. Carrier is a part
of UTC Building & Industrial Systems, a unit of United
Technologies Corp., a leading provider to the aerospace and
building systems industries worldwide. For more information,
visit
www.carrier.com or follow @CarrierAtHome and @CarrierGreen
on Twitter.
About ecobee
ecobee, Inc., based in Toronto, Canada, introduced the world's
first wi-fi connected smart thermostat in 2009. The company
continues to innovate in the smart thermostat space and launched
ecobee3 with remote sensors in 2014. ecobee's award-winning
thermostats have enabled hundreds of thousands of consumers to
control their home comfort anytime and from anywhere, using
their smartphone, tablet or computer.
For more information, visit
www.ecobee.com.
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