Dive Summary:
- A Nest Labs representative tells The New York Times that its $249 smart thermostat has sold “in the mid-hundreds of thousands.”
- “We can gather all that data, mix it with other data we store in the cloud, and push different algorithms to different houses to see how people react,” Tony Fadell, Nest’s founder and chief executive, said.
- The company broke new ground this year by getting Reliant to distribute Nest smart thermostats in Texas.
From the article:
Big Data is in more places than you know, perhaps even your living room.
Nest Labs makes a smart thermostat that promotes energy saving by studying its owner’s habits and predicting things about when people are home and what they are likely to do with their home heating and cooling. Using a clever system of awards for the homeowner (green “leaves” for doing the energy-efficient thing), the thermostat is intended to save money through efficiency. ...
