Google bought a manufacturer of thermostats for $ 3.2 billion

Not whether Google is preparing to offer something for the idea of ​​"smart home»?

Today it became known , that the search giant acquired company Nest - manufacturer of thermostats - for significant $ 3.2 billion. About the company learned about three years ago, in particular the fact that the head of the company is Fedell Tony, a former senior vice president of one of the units of Apple (with it linked the release and success of iPod), and its technical side is likely to have academic roots - the vice-president is Yoku Matsuoka, Professor CS University of Washington.

Nest thermostat itself is a "smart" device "smart" control the temperature in the house - in this case with a recognizable and concise iPod-like design. Apparently, the company has quite successfully argued that she sells from 40 to 50 thousand of these thermostats per month (a rather big price - $ 249), while placing a serious volume of venture capital financing in the $ 80 million received about a year ago. Only on thermostats Nest did not stop and now produces and smoke detectors and carbon monoxide Nest Protect for 129 $.

That Google was going to do with the products Nest is unknown: in QA-session on the acquisition mentioned in the sense that once we have attracted the attention of Google for our devices, it is obvious a lot we can do together, but still talk about it too early. < br />
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