Closer to home, PassivSystem’s Chief Executive Officer and founder Colin Calder got the idea for his company when he tried to build a zero-carbon footprint house in Tuscany and discovered that none of the green energy systems he wanted to use were compatible with each other. Calder immediately saw the incompatibility as a business opportunity. The experience led him to design a networked control system relying on internal and external sensors that synchronizes the different sources of energy entering a house in order to get the maximum efficiency at the lowest cost. The system, which memorizes each house’s characteristics and.
