During 2011 developer conference, Google announced the Android project Home , a sort of home automation system where all the pieces revolved around an Android device. The idea was that from a phone or tablet could control aspects such as opening the door of your house, or turn off the light, temperature control or open your car. To give just a few examples.
By then, the project sounded like science fiction and many thought it was too ambitious concept. Then time passed and it was forgotten. To everyone but Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They waited, patient, your time.
few days ago Google bought Nest, the company behind the smart thermostats and smoke detectors. The agreement was the largest in the history of technology, after the acquisition of 12.500 million mobile division of Motorola second. Like this, which marked the first major foray into the world of Google devices, Nest should it serve as a springboard to jump in household consumption, an increasingly important with the internet of things market. That is, all devices connected to the network.
But this step could really mean much.
The truth is that
Nest is only one of several betting that this company is doing to future technologies. Among other robots are also found (Boston Dynamics bought last December), smart glasses and cars that drive themselves.
must also be remembered that owns Android (most popular mobile operating system in the world that is already beginning to be used in vehicles), and is also a manufacturer of tablets and mobile phones like the Nexus or Moto X. Anyone would think that the Mountain View aspire to be in virtually every area of ??our lives, becoming the Orwellian Big Brother . An overstatement? Not likely.
Google gets into your house“Nest seems to be focused on thermostats and smoke detectors, but it is not unreasonable to think that Google expand this technology to other devices,” he told Bloomberg Shyam Patil, analyst at Wedbush. “Home automation is one of the greatest opportunities when talking about internet of things. Acquisition expands its strategy around that.”
Forrester Research predicts that Google offers a line of smart home products, including locks, doorbells, baby monitors and moisture Morgan Stanley estimates that currently Nest thermostats are selling 100,000 per month. At $ 250 per unit, that amounts to an annual income of about $ 300 million. An impressive figure for a product that entered the market two years ago.
The analyst Frank Gillett, Forrester Research provides that the Internet giant to offer a line of smart home products, including locks, doorbells, baby monitors and moisture, all equipped with sensors to capture information and wifi chip to transmit data.
But
not be unreasonable to think in a combination Nest with its Android operating system. In this regard, some experts say the latest addition to the search engine could be part of a broader sector of home entertainment venture, using its Chromecast that device.
ie, an entertainment system, home automation and control designed, sold and registered by Nest, combined with data and entertainment services in the cloud offered by Google.
is that both are not so different. The technology learns your habits thanks to applications like Google Now. Meanwhile, the thermostat stores the time at which the user stands up, goes out, comes home and goes to bed, and sets the temperature accordingly.
That fits with the overall mission of Google to gather personal data and use them. Your search algorithms are programmed to learn the most useful results for future searches more relevant.
From your mobile, car, passing by your houseA quarter of all circulating online passes under the watchful eye of Google. Moreover, 60% of connected devices will circulate through the search engine at least once a day. Such is his power that some people refer to it directly as internet. And it looks like it wants to transfer this power to the automation.
2011 Hugo Barra introduced Android Home as a “toolbox” with which the experts could create specific applications for smart home experience, led by mobile phone. “The system will be able to gradually turn on the light in the bedroom in the morning and play your favorite music as alarm,” he said smiling.
then nobody believed him. And those who did saw it as something far away. Nest now things have changed.
thermometers monitored with a smartphone to dog collars with wifi, through doors and intelligent brushes teeth. More and more are emerging home appliances connected to the network, a trend that we saw in the last CES in Las Vegas.
Cisco is estimated that the number of connected devices will increase from 10,000 million to 50,000 by 2020. Meanwhile, Gartner believes that by then generate 309,000 million dollars in revenue for providers of these new products.
The vision of a world full of smart appliances emerged even before the web itself. Mike Markkula, a co-founder of Apple, proposed in the mid-80s combine functions and control of network devices using chips. It was expected that these “neurons,” as they were called, were once widely extend its cost down, but ultimately did not succeed.
The vision of a world full of smart appliances emerged even before the web itself
“There are already a multitude of smart devices for the home and not home, but what is needed is something to control. Such is the plan of Google. The idea is that the user has in his smartphone a kind of wall of things because you can not have a app for each device, “explained Teknautas Manuel Casuso CEO Lextrend, Spanish company specialized in desarrolo software and mobile applications.
Thanks to the Internet
things consumers can, for example, using mobile phones to check remotely if they closed the door, left the lights on or the thermostat down. Although current figures suggest that there is still time for that.
Only 2% of U.S. consumers surveyed by Forrester Research in mid-2013, they recognized they use smart home devices. About 28% indicated that they are interested in controlling appliances with a smartphone, but 53% do not.
will change that trend? Wait till you reach Google.
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