There are several home automation products available in the market today, although they all exist independently of one another. However wouldn’t it be better if your home automation products could talk to one another and work in harmony? Well if you own the Nest smart thermostat or the smoke detector, you might be pleased to learn that more third-party products can now interact with it.
Starting with the Pebble smartwatch, the watch will now be able to communicate with your Nest products and allows users to control and check the temperature in their home. There will also be a home manager product called ivee that will notify users when a peak energy event starts and when it ends.
Given that ivee works with voice commands, it will also allow users to use their voice to adjust the temperature. There is also the Life360 app the monitors where your friends/family are on a map, so it detects that when they leave your home, you can readjust the temperature accordingly, since less people means less energy is required to heat/cool the house.
Other third-party product support also includes WallyHome, a device that monitors water leaks, and Rachio which is a smart sprinkler controller that will go off around the house if the Nest Protect alarm has been sounding for quite sometime. These are some interesting additions, although we guess you’d have to own these products in order to fully benefit from the third-party support.
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