In 1975, Ken and Jane Sinclair co-founded Sinclair Energy Service Ltd., which has since been rebranded as SES Consulting. https://sesconsulting.com/our-story/#story They were true pioneers, establishing one of the first home offices equipped with a PET Commodore computer, a 300 baud acoustic modem, and a first-generation laser printer for printing reports at the University of Alberta. This innovative approach to the home office foreshadowed a future of remote work and digital collaboration.
SINCLAIR ENERGY SERVICES LTD The main function of the company has been one of providing energy conservation computerized control expertise to all levels of government, universities and hospitals.
Since 1975 Jane and I have worked from a home office providing Building Automations & Energy Services, then using a PET computer & 300 baud modem. In 1997 we create a company call Enviromation Services, Inc. to capture the integration of the home office connected to large building and business mostly by modems and phone lines. We floated concepts like the home office replacing second car and the garage space becoming new home office. It was still early days but when we started using email and were introduced to the internet a new era began.
Our ESI company failed. We were much too early to market, under-funded and unprepared for the task. Much of what we envisioned had not yet been invented, but folks were interested in our concepts of an automated home integrated with their workspace and a software commute using remote computing.
The success of the failure of ESI introduced us to the Internet, and the first online version of the store was created, which led later to the creation and launching of http://automatedbuildings.com/
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