Smartphone apps to run your home

[aurianluyz]

More and more apps are being created to help you protect your home, start
your car, check your baby’s vitals, and more. But how far are we willing to
go? We use our smartphones for almost everything already. It seems google
really wants to own and control all these smartphone apps and, in turn,
basically be the sole provider of products controlling your everyday. For
example, Google just bought another company called Nest that helps change
your home into a smarthome.

What is Nest?

Nest is a small startup company that uses algorithms and sensors to
determine how to keep your home at a comfortable temperature without
wasting money. It tracks your behavior patterns in your home and heats it
based on that. For example, the system knows when you come home from work
every day and will heat up the house a half hour before you get there to
make sure it is warm. You can still control the thermostat on your own, but
it is also smart enough to tell when it is too hot, too cold, or just needs
to be adjusted for the person in the room.

The only other thing Nest sells at the moment are smart smoke
detectors/carbon monoxide detectors. They are smart enough to be able to
tell the difference between a fire and a little bacon grease, and they can
pinpoint exactly which smoke detector is going off in your home. You will
know exactly which room is in danger, and you can hush it with a wave of
your hand. On top of that, the detector won’t beep in the middle of the
night to tell you the battery is dead. Instead, it will send you an email
notification to let you know it is going to die soon. All of these products
are quickly accessed and controlled by your smartphone apps.

Google purchased Nest

News just broke that Google purchased Nest. And though technology companies
buying other ones is a pretty normal thing, many wonder what the reason is
for this purchase. Maybe it was just to buy a promising start-up venture or
maybe it was to get control over a new kind of idea of controlling your
home through smartphone apps. According to USA Today, the merger was
intended to help Nest grow faster and get more customers, but Google likely
has more in mind than just making a good financial investment.

Integrating smartphones into everything

As a huge tech company, Google knows what it is doing by getting
controlling interests in companies that focus specifically on home control
through smartphone apps. Obviously Google wants to monopolize on the idea
of smartphones helping us to monitor our homes and daily habits. Nest can
get Google there if smart technology is incorporated into more of our daily
lives. The question isn’t whether or not the technology is here or whether
or not it will be available in just a few years. The real questions for
Google is whether or not it is going to monopolize the market for smart
home technology and how smartphones will be used to create a smart home.

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Source:
usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/01/14/google-nest-acquisition-safe-home/4474843/