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Is It Time For Google and Nest To Simplify Its Smart Home Messaging?


paulbates

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I always enjoy Michael Wolf's insight on things. This article is another good example. Below is the excerpt that is most interesting:, how the HA market continues to fragment and become more dis-integrated even inside a single big player like google. It almost seems like comprehensive standards isn't the point, just consuming more market-share at the expense of them

 

From the NextMarket article:

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Just consider all that Google/Alphabet/Nest has going on in this space over the past few years:

  • Google's consumer-facing smart home product group is Nest, which is actually part of Alphabet.
  • Nest created technology that is the basis for Thread, which isn't a Google or Alphabet initiative, but instead an industry consortium.
  • Google acquired Revolv, a smart home hub company, and quietly killed it. 
  • Google's Android group launched Brillo and Weave last spring. 
  • Google announced the OnHub router using Brillo/Weave, a consumer-facing router/smart home hub. OnHub is not a part of Nest, Google/Alphabet's consumer-facing brand for smart home hardware. 
  • Last week Nest announced Weave, which is different than Google Weave, but they are likely share some of the same schema. 
  • Google bought Dropcam in 2014. They launched the Nestcam this year, the newest connected camera, which you can use with your Dropcam or Nest app

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This all makes the ISY approach seem more viable.. a centralized programmable controller with the potential to connect. via nodes, to just about anything.

 

 

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