The article focuses on the rise of Toronto, Ontario-based Ecobee as a major thermostat manufacturer since it launched its first product in 2009. Topics covered include career background of venture capitalist Stuart Lombard who founded the company in 2007, launching of industry's first Wi-Fi-enabled thermostat, Ecobee users' reduction of their energy consumption for home cooling and heating, competition with Honeywell and Google-owned Nest, and launch of Ecobee3 smart thermostat in 2014.