Google Nest Modifies Its Product Portfolio

Google Nest is back in business with several product upgrades.

Nest, the Google Inc. owned platform for the Internet of Things had been out of the picture since a while now but has now come up with a series of modifications and updates. The company recently revealed several upgrades on its Nest platform recently. Many skeptics were concerned about the search engine giant might abandon Nest since it was not really contributing to the ecosystem. However, this turned out to be a delusion when upgrades were revealed.

The upgrade includes a new application that is designed to consolidate all of Nest’s products together. So now the company has devised ways through which their camera, thermostat and smoke detector can be controlled by using a single application instead of different applications for each to perform all the work.

The Google acquired company has revealed the Nest Cam which is said to be an upgrade over Dropcam which they had acquired the previous year. The camera has the potential to record 1080p high definition videos along with the ability to report suspicious activity. The cost of this camera is $199 and will be available in seven countries which comprise of United States, several European countries including Germany.

The new device by the company namely Nest Protect, acts like a carbon monoxide and smoke detector with the ability to measure how rapidly the fire is spreading through its sensors. Users can switch off the alarms when they are not present through the mobile application of Nest. The device is priced at $99. The recent upgrade is a good add on since the device will not automatically shut down which was caused earlier because of an anomaly in the wave feature.

Earlier, the device was pulled off from the market because of this wave feature. The purpose of this feature was to shutdown the alarm through hand gesture but it also stopped the alarm from going off at certain occasions which caused problems.

The report was put forward by the Wall Street Journal according to which Mr. Tony Fadell, the head of Google’s Nest ecosystem expressed his desires to consolidate the Nest devices in order to ensure safety. The company took a great amount of time to enforce these changes since the devices are rather complicated with complex hardware developments that resulted in a lag. According to Mr. Tony Fadell, “I would love to speed up the process, but atoms are much harder than bits.”

So now Nest is back in business and is here to stay.