Google's Nest Labs Unveil HD Security Camera

Google’s Home Sensing Unit – Security Camera/Smoke Alarm 

Nest Labs, which is Google’s Home sensing division has revealed its latest set of a new version of home security camera enhancing technology connected to smart homes. The so called Nest Cam has been designed on technology obtained when Dropcam had been purchased by Nest last year for US4550 million. Dropcam founded in 2009, permitted users to install cameras in their home for the purpose of live viewing and recording combined with the option for night vision.

 The camera had the potential of shooting video at full 1080p high definition an improvement from the Dropcam’s 720p. It provides an 8X digital zoom, motion sensors, as well as leverages 8 infrared LEDs in order to capture flawless footages especially at night. Besides this it also had the capabilities of differentiating between the various kinds of movement in the videos together with alerts to the users should some untoward incidents takes place at home in their absence. The videos which is captured is said to be uploaded directly to the Nest Aware cloud storage wherein live feed could be run on a smartphone or a computer thus enabling Nest Cam with the capabilities of accurate alerts to the users in case of movement in the house.

Modernize Home Gear – Intelligent/Connected Devices 

It is said to be available in seven countries, inclusive of US, Canada and several parts of Europe, namely Germany and the U.K. Google’s Nest unit is putting in resources in its product line-up in convincing consumers that they need to modernize their home gear with intelligent, connected devices while competing with rivals like Apple and Samsung. If users intent to review recorded videos, they would have to buy a subscription and customers can pay subscription fee of £8 and £24 per month in order to keep the video for 10 and 30 days respectively.

Nest Product – the Protect smoke alarm and carbon monoxide detector, another product unveiled, detects fire quicker than the first generation product according to Nest and comes at a price of $99 and will be shipped next month. It appears to be thinner and has various features which automatically ensure its working while it avoids false warnings. Nest is said to be partnering with home insurance companies which includes American Family Insurance and Liberty Mutual Insurance with its Protect product.

Mobile/Desktop App – Control Nest Devices 

Qualified consumers could get their device for free or at reduced cost to receive discounts on insurance premiums through reward program. Tony Fadell, co-founder of Nest Labs has his focus in getting the product paid off when he was at Apple, where he had worked during the rise of the company in 2001. He had been a long time deputy to co-founder Steve Jobs as well as central to the development of the iPod and iPhone.

At the time of the event in San Francisco, the company also unveiled a new mobile and desktop app which will help users in controlling all their Nest devices and with the inclusion of the Nest Cam, the company has now three products inclusive of the Nest Protect and Nest thermostat. These products are a part of internet connected devices collecting sensitive data which come under Google’s umbrella. According to Nest’s senior product manager and head of its developer program, Greg Hu commented during an interview following the announcement, that Google will not gain any data unless authorised by the users. That authorisation, which was announced earlier, enables a variety of third party services and Google services to inter-relate with Nest devices.

Google buys Nest for $ 3.2 billion

Google announced yesterday a major acquisition of the company Nest, aged just three and a half years. It quickly earned a great name in the field of automation with smoke detectors and thermostats smarter, noted for their very worked and sober design. The Mountain View Company has clearly targets the home automation market. She just takes over the specialist Nest for $ 3.2 billion.

Nest is not well known in Europe because its products are mainly sold on American soil. It is produced in special design and worked oriented temperature management or smoke detection. The company has relationships with Apple and hence Google's acquisition thus raises many questions. It was created by two former Cupertino Matt Rogers and Tony Fadell, the latter being also the main designer of the iPod.

Fadell said the acquisition was a great opportunity to Nest and the whole operation would remain the same. The support will be provided, the products continue to be sold and applications for iOS and Android will evolve again. Nothing has yet been said about the Apple Stores, the Nest (thermostat) being officially sold there. Hence we can conclude Nest will therefore continue its activity and organization will be broadly unchanged. In an interview with The Verge, Tony Fadell says that despite a desire to remain independent, the Google offering was simply irresistible in this circumstance. Cofounder further explains that Google has really understood the vision of Nest on its products and that this was a crucial point.

But the question that remains is to actually know what Google intends to do business acquired from reinforcements billion. Rumored that; Google is just working on a project of smart thermostat. It is therefore possible that Mountain View has sought to directly acquire expertise in this area to enrich its own projects, or rather from an existing database and then integrate it with his vision. It is difficult predict that present how products and technologies Nest Google will merge. One can imagine such a scale of Android devices with new possibilities of interaction.

In addition, Google could like his voice recognition to further enhance ease of use. Finally, whether the Nest or the smoke detector, it is very likely a first step towards a broader vision of smart home. However, even if Nest has met with success, the theme of the connected home is not so easy to approach, even if the ESC has yet proven this year that he always so interested. Google’s initiatives in the field, however, have never marked the spirits and all disappeared.

This is particularly true of its Android Home initiative and PowerMeter service, which allowed monitoring the energy consumption of a home. This time, the firm thus enters the field through the front door. Finally , note that the conditions of use of products Nest will not change until further notice. As confirmed to The Verge, those currently in place will remain and there is no plan to change. In addition, the data will be managed by Nest in her lap and will not be mixed with those of other Google services.