It’s been a pretty chilly winter, and not everyone in has reliable heat. Heat Seek NYC is a nonprofit that uses Internet-connected thermostats and a companion web app that logs the temperature every hour. Using $25,000 they won $25,000 from the NYC BigApps competition, they have been running a small-scale pilot program with sensors in 21 apartments in four different buildings. In just this small test, Heat Seek has recorded 5,000 violations of the city’s heating laws.
