Automated Home Electrical and Low-Voltage Mapping Service Packaged as Software Plus Field Kit
Homeowners moving into older houses keep running into the same pain... no labeled breaker panel, no idea which switches control which lights, no map of low-voltage runs or abandoned wiring in the walls. r/homeautomation thread asking 'what if there was a service where some dude shows up, runs tests, and hands back a document' hit 90 comments with enthusiastic demand. This is a local-services-plus-software play... field tech walks the house with a kit (breaker finders, toner probe, thermal camera, WiFi-enabled signal injector), the app logs results room-by-room, output is a searchable map the homeowner keeps forever. Also valuable to electricians and home inspectors as a deliverable.
This is a services business wearing a software skin. Launch in one metro with one contracted field tech, nail the deliverable (interactive room-by-room map plus PDF), then license the app and kit to home inspectors as a $20/report add-on. The smart-home crowd will pay you directly, but inspectors are the distribution channel that scales.
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Homeowners have a gazillion single-purpose tools and a labor market for electricians but no productized 'map my house' service with a durable digital artifact. The win is packaging the field kit and the app so a non-electrician (handy neighbor, home inspector, property manager) can deliver an 'electrical + network + smart-home topology' report in half a day, priced $200-400 per house.