Nest Labs
Nest Labs, Inc. is an automation company based in Palo Alto, which deals with self-learning room thermostats and smoke detectors.
Company History
Nest was founded in 2010 by Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers. The company has raised $ 50 million dollars of venture capital before the founding. Early investors were Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Shasta Ventures.
Delivery of the thermostats began in the fall of 2011. The first batch was sold out within a week. In 2012 came Chip Lutton, Apple's former chief patent consultants, the company; Under his guidance the patent portfolio was significantly strengthened. In April 2012, Honeywell filed a lawsuit against nest for patent infringement.
Since October 2012, the second generation of nest heating controller has been sold. Nest Labs is one of the partners, launched in 2013, the U.S. Energy Initiative MyEnergi lifestyle of the automaker Ford nest of Google Inc. was acquired for $ 3.2 billion in January 2014, which is the second largest corporate takeover in Google's history after Motorola Mobility makes.
Products
Nest Labs Introduces " smart appliances " for the "thinking home" here. The thermostats are capable of learning and adjust the room temperature to the outside temperature and the habits of the inhabitants of, reduce the temperature sensor-controlled, Wi -Fi supportive and programmable ( see also: home automation ) when there are no people in the house are. The programmable room temperature controller should improve in the United States customary, less efficient 2- point control ( only 0 or 100% heating or Kühllleistung compared to the usual in other countries continuous control). The thermostat learned based on the selected settings, the habits of its user.
Room thermostat from Nest are intended as a replacement for existing warm air heating heating thermostats in 24 - volt technology from various manufacturers and designed for self-assembly by the handyman. They are the special feature of the U.S. building (mainly used warm air heating, low building mass, two-position controller and 24 - volt technology ) optimized and are not marketed in Europe. When configuring the nest heating controller for geographical optimization entering a U.S. zip code is required. For this reason, Nest thermostat is currently in other countries without substantial functional limitations can not be used. Google wants to ascend to the acquisition in the " Internet of Things" into the market leader. It is estimated that Nest currently sells over 40,000 thermostats per month with large growth rates. The conversion was not reported in 2013.
Awards
- 2012: Technology Innovation Award from the Wall Street Journal in the category Energy