36 Facts About Nest Labs

Google Nest Labs is a line of smart home products including smart speakers, smart displays, streaming devices, thermostats, smoke detectors, routers and security systems including smart doorbells, cameras and smart locks.

Nest brand name was originally owned by Nest Labs, co-founded by former Apple engineers Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers in 2010.

However, in 2018, Nest Labs was merged into Google's home-devices unit led by Rishi Chandra, effectively ceasing to exist as a separate business.

Nest Labs was founded in 2010 by former Apple engineers Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers.

In June 2015, the new Nest Labs Cam, replacing the Dropcam, was announced, together with the second generation of the Nest Labs Protect; there were internal reports that sales of the rebranded camera fell.

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In January 2016, some Nest Labs thermostats stopped working, a fault attributed to a software update a fortnight earlier.

Many of Nest Labs's staffers came from Dropcam and Revolv, and by November 2015, about 70 of about 1000 staffers had quit, causing management concern.

At this point the Nest Labs acquisition was described by some press as a "disaster" for Google.

Nest Labs was merged with Google's home devices team, led by Rishi Chandra.

Nest Labs Learning Thermostat is an electronic, programmable, and self-learning Wi-Fi-enabled thermostat that optimizes heating and cooling of homes and businesses to conserve energy.

Nest Labs Thermostat is built around an operating system that allows interaction with the thermostat via spinning and clicking of its control wheel, which brings up option menus for switching from heating to cooling, access to device settings, energy history, and scheduling.

Nest Labs is currently available for sale in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Spain.

In September 2017, Nest Labs released the Thermostat E, a lower-priced version of the original Nest Labs Thermostat.

The rotating ring found on other Nest Labs models was replaced with a touch-sensitive strip on the right side of the thermostat body, with swiping and tapping of the touch-sensitive strip being the input method for this model.

In October 2013, Nest Labs announced its second product, the Nest Labs Protect smoke and carbon monoxide detector.

The Nest Labs Protect is available in both black and white and comes in battery or AC-powered models.

The Nest Labs Protect features a multicolored light ring which is color-coded to indicate different operations, such as yellow to indicate an early warning or red if an alarm is sounding.

The Nest Labs Protect warns of an alarm sounding briefly before it does.

The differences from the first generation Nest Labs Protect includes an improved sensor, which uses two wavelengths of light, allowing it to detect both smoldering and flaming fires.

The carbon monoxide sensor lasts longer, resulting in the new Nest Labs Protect lasting 10 years, whereas the original Nest Labs Protect lasts seven years.

The new Nest Labs Protect can be silenced using a smart device, if not in the US or Canada.

Safety Rewards allows Nest Labs Protect users that have their insurance through American Family and Liberty Mutual to get savings off their bill.

In June 2014, Nest Labs acquired Dropcam, maker of the Dropcam security camera.

In June 2015, Nest Labs announced the Nest Labs Cam, an upgraded and rebranded security camera based on the Dropcam.

Nest Labs released a security update later that month that fixed the vulnerabilities.

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Nest Labs Cam Outdoor was announced in July 2016 and is a version of the Nest Labs Cam adapted for outdoor monitoring.

Nest Labs Cam IQ was announced in June 2017 and is a more premium model of their Nest Labs Cam Indoor.

Nest Labs Secure is a home security system announced in September 2017.

Nest Labs has a partnership with Brinks Home Security for a monthly plan so that the Nest Labs Protect system can be professionally monitored.

In February 2019, the Nest Labs Guard received an update to add Google Assistant, allowing it to effectively double as a smart speaker similar to Google Home for general voice commands.

Nest Labs Doorbell is a series of smart video doorbells with facial recognition.

Nest Labs × Yale is a smart lock produced in collaboration with Yale, released March 2018.

Works with Nest Labs was a program that allowed third party devices to communicate with Nest Labs products, such as virtual assistants, along with many third-party home automation platforms.

Honeywell claimed that Nest Labs infringed on patents pertaining to remotely controlling a thermostat, power-stealing thermostats, and thermostats designed around a circular, interactive design, similar to the Honeywell T87.

Nest Labs has taken the stance that they will see this through to patent court as they suspect Honeywell is trying to harass them, litigiously and financially, out of business.

In 2016, Nest Labs announced that the devices of Revolv customers would be bricked on May 15, as they were shutting down the necessary cloud software.