About the founder
Jason Powers combines scientific discipline, federal program leadership, and more than a decade of national ioT and multifamily technology experience to guide Powers PropTech projects from early decisions through turnover.
The operating standard
Design the right system. Build the right team. Stay accountable for the outcome.
$330M+
Energy grants technically reviewed and overseen
$15M
Competitive public-building program led
100+
Certified technician network built through Powers ioT
25
Major U.S. cities served by that network
The story
Jason did not begin his career selling building technology. He began by learning how to understand complex systems, measure what is happening, and organize people around a practical result.
His scientific training at Stony Brook University led to field research and public-sector program leadership. At the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, he managed a $1.8 million federal grant and coordinated more than 40 research projects involving over 200 fishermen. The work required technical judgment, disciplined documentation, and the ability to earn trust across groups with very different priorities.
At the U.S. Department of Energy, that responsibility expanded to national energy programs. Jason reviewed and oversaw more than $330 million in energy-efficiency and renewable-energy grants, managed building portfolio analysis, and led a $15 million competitive program focused on improving public buildings.
The setting has changed—from marine research, to federal energy programs, to connected buildings—but the core work is familiar: understand the system, define the plan, coordinate the people, manage the risk, and deliver something that performs in the real world.
Career progression
Each stage added a capability that now matters to owners and project teams: investigation, program management, distributed field execution, technical coordination, and operational closeout.
New York State DEC · South Carolina DNR
After earning degrees in Biology and Coastal Oceanography, Jason moved from marine research into program leadership—managing a $1.8 million federal grant, more than 40 cooperative research projects, and work involving over 200 commercial and recreational fishermen.
U.S. Department of Energy
As an Energy Project Specialist, Jason conducted technical reviews and oversight for more than $330 million in energy-efficiency and renewable-energy grants and led a $15 million competitive program focused on public-building portfolios.
Powers ioT
Jason built a national installation and consulting organization with more than 100 certified HVAC, electrical, and audiovisual technicians across 25 major U.S. cities—supporting multifamily, single-family, and white-glove residential technology programs.
Powers PropTech · Simsbury, Connecticut
Powers PropTech brings that experience to owners, developers, general contractors, operators, and design teams through low-voltage design, technology selection, technician coordination, project management, integration, and training.
Building the Powers name
Jason founded Powers ioT in 2013, at the beginning of the connected-home market’s rapid growth. The company built a network of more than 100 certified HVAC, electrical, and audiovisual technicians across 25 major U.S. cities.
That network supported multifamily, single-family, and white-glove residential work while giving Jason firsthand experience with the point where product promises meet drawings, field conditions, software, technicians, property staff, and residents.
Over time, the Powers name became familiar to multifamily integration platforms and technology manufacturers. Those relationships continue to generate referrals when owners need experienced help maintaining, stabilizing, or replacing building-technology systems.
Why Powers PropTech
Jason founded Powers PropTech in 2024 to bring the work closer to his home in Connecticut and build the company around the way modern projects are delivered.
Powers PropTech coordinates experienced regional technicians and technology specialists around each property’s systems, geography, schedule, and operating requirements. Jason remains directly involved in strategy, design, coordination, escalation, and closeout while the broader technical network supports execution nationwide.
The result is a company that can meet a project where it is—early design, active construction, platform migration, staff training, or an existing system that needs to be stabilized—and organize the right resources around a clear path forward.
Design
Low-voltage planning, device schedules, scope, and coordination
Delivery
Technician deployment, field oversight, and issue management
Integration
Platform readiness, testing, escalation, and workflow alignment
Adoption
Documentation, staff training, closeout, and ongoing support
A project that captures the philosophy
Legacy Powers ioT experienceBrooklyn, New York
Jason led smart-home design and integration from rough-in through completion, connecting centralized networking, multi-zone Nest controls, occupancy-based energy logic, indoor-air-quality monitoring, distributed audio, and sustainable materials.
The project demonstrates an idea that still guides the company: coordinate technology as one operating system for the property instead of treating every device as an isolated product.
Read the full case studyWorking principles
Every technology decision should support the people who will own, manage, maintain, and use the property after turnover.
Pathways, power, networks, device locations, software, and responsibilities are coordinated before field changes become expensive.
Systems are evaluated against the building, operating model, existing infrastructure, residents, geography, and support needs.
Regional technicians and technical specialists are selected for the systems, market, schedule, and expected standard of execution.
Clear leadership keeps ownership, design, construction, manufacturers, technicians, and operations moving toward the same outcome.
Testing, documentation, staff training, and closeout are treated as part of delivery—not as optional follow-up.
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Owners, developers, general contractors, operators, and design teams can bring Powers PropTech into the project at any stage.