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How DIY Is Blurring The Lines In Smart Home Security
The rise of self-installed security systems is changing the smart home landscape and how companies target consumers
Nest
Product Spotlight
Your Nest Learning Thermostat Is About To Not Matter
Google’s roadmap for the smart home doesn’t include its most popular smart thermostat
Product Spotlight
Your Nest Thermostat Could Soon Save Your Heating From Breaking Down
Google is trialling the new Nest Thermostat feature
Home Automation
Google Unveils $49 Nest Mini with Better Sound, Dedicated Machine Learning Chip
Small smart speaker, solid improvements
Another View
Google Nest Rebrand Kick-Starts The Next Chapter Of A Smart-Home Evolution
Google Home and related devices have a 24% market share as of January 2019
Buying Groups
Nationwide Nabs Nest Labs
The Nationwide Marketing Group is getting a major boost to its connected-home initiatives. The $15 billion marketing, merchandising and services organization has added Nest...
Keeping Current
Google Taking Nest Labs Team In-House
Google has absorbed Nest Labs’ development team in order to create a unified IoT platform — and focus on its Amazon Echo smart-home hub...
Home Automation
Is It A Dog Or The Delivery Man? Nest Cams Will Know
Nest Labs stepped into the great wide open with its newest security cam, the Nest Cam Outdoor. The Nest Cam Outdoor is essentially the...
Home Automation
Nest Now Selling Others’ ‘Works With Nest’ Smart-Home Devices
Nest has begun selling third-party smart-home products directly from its online store for the first time. All of the products carry the Works with...
Distributors
Nest Signs New Age Electronics
New Age Electronics has further lined its connected-home nest by inking a distribution deal with Nest. Under the agreement, the national CE and gaming...
Home Automation
Nest Looks To Jump-Start Thread Standard With OpenThread
Nest introduced OpenThread today, an open-source reference code implementation of the Thread networking protocol. With OpenThread, Nest aims to make the wireless connection technology...
Home Automation
EchoStar, Nest, TP-Link Add To DIY Smart-Home Options
Smart-home companies Nest and TP-LINK are adding new capabilities to their home-automation products while EchoStar Technologies is launching its first system. EchoStar’s entry differs...
Home Automation
Thread Group Begins Smart-Home Product Certification
The Nest-led Thread Group has begun certification testing of more than 30 products and components submitted so far by Thread Group members. Certification testing,...
Home Automation
Danalock Smart Lock Adds Nest, ZigBee, Harmony Integration
The Danalock smart lock from Poly-Control is getting a complete makeover. The company will go to the CEDIA Expo with a Danalock V2 smart...
Home Automation
Yale’s Entry Into Smart Locks Is Huge
Yale, the flagship brand of the leading lock company in the world, Assa Abloy, will legitimize the small but growing smart locks category with...
Home Automation
Nest Building Bridges In The Smart Home
Want the lights to turn on when no one is home, or have your security cam start recording when the doorbell is pressed? That...
Home Automation
Everything You Need To Know About Nest’s New Learning Thermostat
Nest Labs launched its third-generation Nest Learning Thermostat, adding a larger higher-resolution and the ability to detect furnace problems. The $249-suggested device also adds...
Home Automation
The Latest In Home Automation: What To Look For
New York – Home-automation suppliers have updated their product portfolios or added distribution in recent days, with key announcements coming from Amazon, Smart Things,...
Home Automation
Thread-Certified Home Automation Products Seen In Late 2015
San Ramon, Calif. – The Nest-led Thread Group expects the first Thread-certified home-automation products to be available to consumers late this year now that...
Home Automation
Nest Family Gets An Upgrade
Palo Alto, Calif. — Nest Labs leveraged the fruits of its Google parent and its Dropcam acquisition with the launch of a new security...
Home Automation
Apple HomeKit-Certified Products Arrive
Coopersburg, Pa. – The first “Works With Apple HomeKit” products hit stores shelves today with the launch of Lutron’s Caséta Wireless Lighting Starter Kits...
Blogs
‘Thread,’ ‘Weave’ Leave Me In Stitches
If anything, the folks in the home-automation business are a clever bunch when it comes to naming their technologies. Google calls its new IoT...
Home Automation
TiO Updates Wireless Home Automation System
Melbourne, Fla. – Wireless home-automation supplier Anuva Automation has updated the OS for its TiO (Turn it On) wireless home-control system and unveiled a...
Home Automation
Thread Group, ZigBee Collaborate In Home Automation
San Ramon, Calif. – The Nest-led Thread Group is working with the ZigBee Alliance to spur interoperability among home-automation products incorporating Thread’s planned wireless...
Home Automation
Nest-Led Thread Home-Automation Group Grows To 50 Companies
The Thread Grouphas grown to more than 50 members since membership opened on October 1. The Thread Group is an industry alliance chartered with...
Home Automation
SNUPI Sensors Drop Into Nest
Seattle – SNUPI Technologies will integrate its WallyHome sensor network with Nest’s learning thermostat under the Works with Nest program, the companies announced. The...
Home Automation
Nest Upgrades Learning Thermostat
Palo Alto, Calif. — Nest is upgrading the feature set of its Wi-Fi-connected Learning Thermostat with a firmware upgrade that, among other things, adjusts...
Home Automation
Nest Buys Revolv, Adds Compatible Partners
Palo Alto, Calif. – Nest enlisted five new companies to participate in its Works With Nest home-automation program and acquired startup home-automation supplier Revolv....
Blogs
A DIY Solution To Home Radon Testing
Radon is a naturally occurring, odorless, radiation-filled gas that can seep into buildings from the surrounding soil through foundation cracks and openings and even...
Home Automation
Revolv Takes A Whirl With Nest Detectors, Danalock
Boulder, Colo. – Revolv, the home-automation hub supplier, has added compatibility with the Nest Protect CO/smoke detector and launched a new UI for the...
Home Automation
Nest Connecting To Home-Automation Systems
Denver — Nest’s learning thermostat and smoke/carbon-monoxide detector will integrate with installed home-automation systems for the first time, Nest announced on the eve of...
Distributors
Catalyst AV Distribution Network to Sell Nest Products
Catalyst AV, a nationwide distribution network of specialty products that serves more than 15,000 integrators from 15 regions in the U.S., today announced that...
Home Automation
Whirlpool Selling Nest-Enabled Laundry Pair
BENTON HARBOR, MICH. – Whirlpool has introduced a smart washer and dryer that can be wirelessly controlled by the Nest Learning Thermostat. Whirlpool said...
Distributors
Volutone Signs Several Suppliers
Simi Valley, Calif. — Volutone Distributing, a member of the PowerHouse Alliance, has recently partnered with ccGEN2 by URC, DSC, LG Commercial, Nest, Qolsys...
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