Nest Learning Thermostat

Nest Learning Thermostat
Posted: 12.09.2011, 2:21pm
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The Nest Learning Thermostat learns about you and your home to automatically turn itself down when you’re away, guide you to energy-efficient temperatures when you’re home, and free you from programming hassles by creating a customized temperature schedule. With heating and cooling accounting for approximately 50%—or more than $1,000 per year—of the average household energy bill, Nest can make a noticeable difference by helping you reduce your energy consumption. Just answer a few setup questions, make a week’s worth of temperature adjustments, and Nest takes it from there.

Because Nest has Wi-Fi built in, you can control it from your laptop, smartphone or tablet. Change the temperature, adjust your schedule and check your energy usage.

Nest tracks the temperatures you typically set and guides you to more energy-efficient ones, displaying the Nest Leaf as a reward when you set the temperature to a more energy-efficient setting. The Auto-Away feature can sense when you’re not home and will lower the temperature, saving energy. You can also check Energy History to see how much you saved.

Web site: http://www.nest.com

Video tour: http://www.nest.com/index.html#videotour

Price: $249

 

5 Comments for this post:

Fred Hernandez says
December 15, 2011 at 10:56 pm

It’s the future

Holly Huynh says
December 19, 2011 at 11:38 pm

Looks like a cool device!

Jim whims says
December 19, 2011 at 11:49 pm

These guys get it. Elegant design coupled
with a much needed solution in the
marketplace.
Sound familiar???

Tom says
December 22, 2011 at 9:33 am

It is difficult for a thermostat to instill gadget-lust, especially in a list of desirable products like this, but the design is beautiful and the technology should be a legal requirement for all new buildings. I cant see any of the other products being able to offer the social benefit that this one can.

Jason says
December 23, 2011 at 9:31 pm

While a lot of the other devices in the competition are pretty neat, they will be easily replaced next year. This one changes how we interact with our home in a manner that makes life more comfortable as well as potentially saving money on energy costs. Well thought out design and interface but a bit expensive, hopefully the price will become more affordable as it catches on.

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