There is a buz in the press over googles acquisition of Nest, the very nice heating control that's taking the market by storm. The point is that Google seems to be trying, quite successfully, to push the android OS into the home control market with the Goole nest and with the Intel card the size of an SD card, it certainly looks like they are making ground.
What's this to us, well, are we going to have to take notice, will products change, and will heating systems become intelligent, and not reliant on the almost basic equipment and calcs currently in place. I certainly think so.
The quest for us, and the CPD here, is to track what Google is doing, who they are aquiring and how they will push android into the building industry. We have already seen locks and home security being targeted with a number of “E” locks coming onto the market.
What else, well sensors within the house are almost there, I did a report to ICAT as an abstract on sensors technology using backscatter technology to power them for almost ever. The quest as far as I can see is to watch this with even more than a passing interest and see what else we might have to consider. my fear is that we migh wel be forced into a fajita comply, and the power of Google will squash the other players.
Windows and doors might seem the next big thing, closing on there own, locking and opening to allow ventilation if the “next” wants it. Power generation via solar, is also now almost main stream, will the nest together with android! Control it's use, even demand you install solar tech.
One or two people in the know, seemed to think apple was in talks to acquire Nest, but this move by google is making them the almost dominant player, if the regulatory people approve the purchase, and I can't see why not.
Oh and take a look at the car industry, several big manufacturers are now using android, both as the interface for our coms, and also as the running system. apple is seriously lagging behind.
My other problem is, should I now reconsider my next phone as a Next with android OS, not apple! just because of this! I need to learn about android and using a google phone will make me understand. You will see from the article yesterday, that I use google and their docs rather a lot, to write and generate documents for my students and linking with friends! plus the embedding I like to do.
As far as estate set up and planning, is concerned, should we make sure that the likes of BT and other laying cables have access, to each house, bt has their system, but even with new houses, they have to rely on fibre to the street box's and copper to the remaining small but significant stretch to the house, and here we might look at what Google is doing to there test city Kansas in the USA.
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