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    Smartphone apps to run your home




    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/



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