Lim also casts a wide net for customers, currently selling to ten industries including medical (still the biggest), high tech, utilities and food services.
The largest is mobile advertising/marketing at $6 billion, plus education, entertainment, enterprise/B2B, tech, utilities, wearables, lifestyle, health and fitness and music.
A high-tech utility room has an easily accessible pool pump and backup generator, and the villa also has an alarm security system.
"You're seeing with these communities that they're developing partnerships with tech companies, utilities and the state so that there are other stakeholders who'll be there, involved long after groundbreaking to support and maintain those relationships and that development," she says.
In a blunt, low-tech way, utilities have tried for years to cut peaks in demand for power, which they call peak load.
To address this, the company has created a hardware and software platform designed to let companies add haptic features to their products and which takes the tech's utility beyond gaming or mobile phones.
Behind a lot of that talk is belief in the tech's utility down the road, but until Apple is ready to experimenting with AR tech in core iOS features, all of the chatter around AR having plenty of utility today feels a bit half-hearted.
Some of the time savings come from the fact that Acre already builds a tech and utility hub for the home, for example, so instead of having to have multiple trades come in to set these things up, the whole process becomes plug-and-play.
New approaches are especially important for filling the middle-skilled jobs that are essential to fast-growing sectors of our economy, such as health care, information technology, high-tech manufacturing, utility work, and the trades.
21st century cash rich tech companies and utilities would suddenly line up on the right side of climate policy debates providing an important political counterweight to the oil industry.
Taking another cue from the tech industry, the utility is also building a mesh network to control its systems.
