oh i totally agree...but as i'm involved with asset management to an extent, the vendors that approach us try to sell this, and my 1st question when i hear about their great product is, can i opt out of the monitoring and use your product stand alone...usually they dance around the question or say monitoring is a must as they know where the revenue stream is coming from, and give me a price where i'm like
if it's something a building manager/owner can monitor on their own and control, without ongoing monitoring fees, i'm all for it, if the upfront capital cost makes sense. labour cost of installing it to control the main shut off isn't that bad. i just don't like committing to these guys as the #'s don't convince me of their business case.