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How does the cloud impact video surveillance?
February 7, 2018Spencer Ives
AUSTIN, Texas—Several professionals in video surveillance—bringing expertise in verification, data storage, consumer video and professional video—gathered here at Security Systems News' third annual Cloud+ to discuss how the cloud will impact camera technologies.
Larry Folsom, president of cloud-based verification platform provider I-View Now, led the session as its moderator. Brandon Reich, surveillance business leader for Pivot3, Leon Tan, head of Works with Nest partnerships...
Google's Nest buying Dropcam
June 23, 2014Tess Nacelewicz
PALO ALTO, Calif.—First, Google got into home automation early this year with the $3.2 billion buy of smart thermostat and smoke alarm maker Nest Labs. Now, Nest has announced it plans to buy Dropcam, which makes video cameras that stream video to a user's computer or cellphone. The $555 million buy gives Google an entrée into home security.The deal should expand the companies' share of the smart home market, an investor and market analyst tell Security Systems News.However, how much Nest's...
Google's Nest alarm returns, at a lower price
June 19, 2014SSN Staff
PALO ALTO, Calif.—Google's Nest Labs recently announced that the company was once again selling Nest's smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, two months after the company recalled 440,000 of the devices because of a defect that made it possible for users to deactivate the alarm without meaning to do so.
According to a report this week from The New York Times, Nest is also cutting the price on the product to $99 from $130. The device now lacks an easy alarm-silencing feature that was one of its...
Google's Nest recalls almost half a million fire alarms
May 22, 2014SSN Staff
PALO ALTO, Calif.—Google's Nest Labs is recalling 440,000 smoke detectors, Reuters news service reported this week.
The $130 smoke/CO detector, called Nest Protect, is so smart it can talk to home residents to warn them if there's a fire or dangerous levels of CO.
The 440,000 number comes from a U.S. government recall notice and gives an indication of how many of the smart home appliances Nest has sold since sales started in November, the Reuters report said.
“Nest, which Google acquired...
This Blog's on Fire (And Other Stuff)
Possible defect halts sales of Google's Nest smoke detector
April 9, 2014Tess Nacelewicz
It was big news early this year when Google decided to buy Nest Labs, a California-based maker of smart smoke detectors and thermostats, for $3.2 billion. But now it appears that Nest Lab's intelligent new smoke/carbon monoxide detector isn't as smart as billed. News reports say sales of the device have been stopped because it's possible users can deactivate it without meaning to do so.
The smoke/CO detector, called Nest Protect, is so smart it can talk to home residents to warn them if there's...
SSN Readers: Google eyeing security
February 5, 2014Leif Kothe
YARMOUTH, Maine—Google's recent acquisition of home automation company Nest Labs led many to believe the tech giant was setting up a beachhead on the industry's shores. Readers who responded to a recent SSN News Poll tend to agree, with many saying Google's buy is no half-hearted entrance into security—it's a sign of ever-larger involvement in the residential space.Seventy percent of respondents believe Google will become a major home automation provider, while another 64 percent say...
Sizing up Google's smart home play
January 29, 2014Tess Nacelewicz
YARMOUTH, Maine—Security companies should take note of Google's recent expansion into the connected home with its $3.2 billion buy of smart thermostat and smoke alarm maker Nest Labs, industry experts tell Security Systems News.“I think it's an indication that change could well be on the way,” Jonathan Collins, principal analyst for ABI Research, a New York-based technology market intelligence company, told Security Systems News.The deal alone won't have a large direct impact on...
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Google gets into home automation with $3.2 billion buy of smoke alarm company
January 15, 2014Tess Nacelewicz
We wrote this fall about a new smoke/CO detector so smart it can talk to home residents and tell them if there's a fire or dangerous levels of carbon monoxide. Now Google likes that detector—called Nest Protect—and other products made by California-based Nest Labs so much that it is buying the smoke alarm company for $3.2 billion.
The deal, announced this week, is Google's second largest acquisition so far, after its 2012 purchase of Motorola, a mobile phone maker, according to news reports.
The...
New smoke/CO detector is smart
October 11, 2013SSN Staff
PAOLO ALTO, Calif.—Nest Protect, the smoke and carbon monoxide detector released Oct. 8 by Nest Labs, offers safety without annoyance, the company says.
Nest Protect speaks and gives users a vocal “heads up,” telling them what it detects before emitting an alarm, according to the company's news release. It can be silenced with the wave of a hand and will send messages to integrated mobile devices to ask for new batteries.
“We've all experienced the smoke alarm going off while...