Signal launches Parsons Platform
Signal has made-live Housing Vermont's Parsons Platform website. Parsons Platform is an exciting new initiative from the Burlington-based non-profit housing development company that aims to improve energy-efficiency of residential structures through collection and analysis of a wide-range of energy-related data collected by remote on-site sensors....
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