"from Google and Facebook, have begun to eliminate the cultural and economic differences between the two cities. East Palo Alto and Palo Alto share both telephone area codes and postal ZIP codes. 43% of East Palo Alto's residents were African Americans in 1990, which was the result of redlining practices and racial deed restrictions in Palo Alto. Latinos now constitute about 65% of the total population, while the proportion of African Americans has decreased to about 15%. A small minority of Pacific Islanders also reside in East Palo Alto, most of Tongan, Samoan and Indo-Fijian origin.. East Palo Alto has"
"systems, speakers, or lighting. He also predicted this percentage to grow to only 15% by 2021. Furthermore, 72% of respondents in a 2016 survey conducted by Pricewaterhouse Coopers did not foresee adopting smart-home technology over the next two to five years. On February 7, 2018, it was announced by hardware head Rick Osterloh that Nest had been merged into Google's hardware division, directly alongside units such as Google Home and Chromecast. It would retain its separate Palo Alto headquarters, but Nest CEO Marwan Fawaz would now report to Osterloh, and there were plans for tighter integration with Google platforms and"
"Nest Labs Nest Labs is an American manufacturer of smart home products including thermostats, smoke detectors, and security systems. Its flagship product, which was the company's first offering, is the Nest Learning Thermostat that was introduced in 2011. The product is programmable, self-learning, sensor-driven, and Wi-Fi-enabled – features that are often found in other Nest products. It was followed by the Nest Protect smoke and carbon monoxide detector in October 2013. After its acquisition of Dropcam in 2014, the company introduced its Nest Cam branding of security cameras beginning in June 2015. Co-founded by former Apple engineers Tony Fadell and"
"software such as Google Assistant in future products. Shortly after the announcement, co-founder and chief product officer Matt Rogers announced that he planned to leave the company. On July 18, 2018, Nest CEO Marwan Fawaz stepped down. Nest was merged with Google's home devices team, led by Rishi Chandra. The Nest 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. It is based on a machine learning algorithm: for the first weeks users have to regulate the thermostat in order to provide the reference data set. Nest"
"of Historic Places or designation as a National Monument. In March 2015, Tim Gill co-founded the smart home technology start-up JStar LLC. Gill is the Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of the company. JStar's flagship product is Josh.ai, a voice-controlled home automation system using JStar's own artificial intelligence technology platform. The company is headquartered in Denver with offices in Los Angeles. In July 2017, JStar announced an additional $8 million in private investment to create original hardware to compete with Google Home, Amazon Echo, and other devices with intelligent assistants inside. Currently, Josh.ai can be used through Amazon Alexa-enabled devices,"
"was delayed until March in the United States. The Hello was launched in the UK in May 2018. Works with Nest is a program that allows third party devices to communicate with Nest products. Nest products can be controlled with the Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa virtual assistants, along with many third-party home automation platforms. Additionally, many smart device manufactures have direct integration with the Nest platform, including Whirlpool and GE Appliances. In February 2012, Honeywell filed a lawsuit claiming that some of its patents had been infringed by Nest; Nest has said that it will fight the lawsuit. On"
"available in Belgium, France, Ireland and the Netherlands. Initially they are sold in approximately 400 retail stores across Europe with another 150 stores to be added by the end of the year. In June 2015, the new Nest Cam, replacing the Dropcam, was announced, together with the second generation of the Nest Protect. In August 2015, Google announced that it would restructure its operations under a new parent company, Alphabet Inc., with Nest being separated from Google as a subsidiary of the new holding company. The restructuring led to Tony Fadell, the Nest CEO, to announce in a blog post"
"Matt Rogers in 2010, the company quickly expanded to more than 130 employees by the end of 2012. Google acquired Nest Labs for US$3.2 billion in January 2014, when the company employed 280. As of late 2015, Nest employs more than 1,100 and has a primary engineering center in Seattle. Nest Labs was founded in 2010 by former Apple engineers Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers. The idea came when Fadell was building a vacation home and found all of the available thermostats on the market to be inadequate, motivated to bring something better on the market. Early investors in Nest"
"Labs included Shasta Ventures and KPCB. On January 13, 2014, Google announced plans to acquire Nest Labs for $3.2 billion in cash. Google completed the acquisition the next day, on January 14, 2014. The company would operate independently from Google's other businesses. In June 2014, it was announced that Nest would buy camera startup Dropcam for $555 million. With the purchase, Dropcam became integrated with other Nest products; if the Protect alarm is triggered the Dropcam can automatically start recording, and the Thermostat can use Dropcam to sense for motion. In September 2014, the Nest Thermostat and Nest Protect became"
"Caufield & Byers were the only investors in the Series A round for Nest Labs (the home automation company) in September 2010. When Google later bought Nest Labs for US$3.2 billion in January 2014, Shasta had a net gain of about $200 million, enough to pay out ""almost all"" of the $250 million Shasta II fund. Shasta has invested in a number of other companies such as Anaplan, Leanplum, Nextdoor, Lithium Technologies, Zuora, Tally Technologies. and Stealth Security Shasta Ventures Shasta Ventures is an early-stage venture capital investment firm located in Silicon Valley that invests in enterprise and technology consumer"
"funds advised by Pacific Equity Partners and Blum Capital Partners. The deal was completed on April 1, 2016. In May 2016, Honeywell International Inc. settled its patent dispute regarding Google subsidiary Nest Labs, whose thermostats Honeywell claimed infringed on several of its patents. Google parent Alphabet Inc. and Honeywell said they reached a ""patent cross-license"" agreement that ""fully resolves"" the long-standing dispute. Honeywell sued Nest Labs in 2012. On September 12, 2016, Morris Plain, N.J.-based Honeywell announced that it would invest $20 million in the first-of-its-kind software development center and relocate the headquarters of its nearly $10 billion home and"
"valued as a unicorn. On May 25, 2018, the company cancelled its next flagship and was reported to be for sale. In December 2018, Essential acquired CloudMagic, owner of the discontinued mobile email app Newton. An Android smartphone. The Essential Home is a smart speaker and smart home hub running an Essential-designed operating system, named Ambient OS. The device was planned for a launch in late 2017 but has yet to release. Essential Products Essential Products (marketed as Essential) is an American technology company and manufacturer founded on November 9, 2015 by Andy Rubin and based in Palo Alto. The"
"In 2012 the company’s home orders returned to its pre-2008 levels. That year the company began a new program called “Lennar Next Gen”, which focused on building homes for multi-generation households. The following year, in 2013, Lennar Commercial Investors was founded in order for Lennar to enter the commercial real estate market. In February 2018, the company acquired CalAtlantic Homes. The $9.3 billion merger made the company become the largest home builder in the US. In May 2018, Lennar announced that Amazon's Alexa will be included into all of the 35,000 new homes built this year. Soon afterward its founding,"
"Black Swan Data Black Swan Data is a London-based technology and data science company that produces an online analytics platform called the Nest. The Nest uses predictive data science to analyze a wide variety of data to help businesses identify potential trends and customer behaviors. Its notable clients include Disney, PepsiCo, Vodafone, Panasonic, Tesco, and numerous others. In 2016, the company raised a total of £9.2 million in two separate funding rounds led by investors like Mitsui, Albion Ventures, and The Blackstone Group. The company is headquartered in London and has offices in Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Singapore, Budapest,"
"Tony Fadell Anthony Michael ""Tony"" Fadell (born March 22, 1969) is an American engineer, inventor, designer, entrepreneur, and angel investor. He served as the Senior Vice President of the iPod division at Apple Inc., from March 2006 to November 2008 and is known as ""one of the fathers of the iPod"" for his work on the first generations of Apple's music player. In May 2010, he founded Nest Labs, which announced its first product, the Nest Learning Thermostat, in October 2011. Nest was acquired by Google in January 2014 for $3.2B. Since early 2015 he led the Google Glass division,"
"team) and developed Google X's portfolio in medical space. She then joined Nest as VP of Technology, in charge of machine learning and UX. There she led the development of the adaptive component of the Nest Thermostat, which is a key component of the product to date. Currently, she is an advisor to Brain of Things, that provides a home that learns. In 2015 she left for Apple and worked there until Dec 2016 on Apple's HealthKit tracking software, the CareKit tool for managing patient medical care, and the ResearchKit framework. She is currently Chief Technology Officer at Nest. She"
"most advantageous for GlaxoSmithKline. Black Swan Data Black Swan Data is a London-based technology and data science company that produces an online analytics platform called the Nest. The Nest uses predictive data science to analyze a wide variety of data to help businesses identify potential trends and customer behaviors. Its notable clients include Disney, PepsiCo, Vodafone, Panasonic, Tesco, and numerous others. In 2016, the company raised a total of £9.2 million in two separate funding rounds led by investors like Mitsui, Albion Ventures, and The Blackstone Group. The company is headquartered in London and has offices in Los Angeles, New"
"Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. The 2015 CES was reportedly the largest in its history, with 3,600 exhibitors and 170,000 professional/industry attendees. The Internet of Things, impacting all other industries, has been recognized as the buzzword of the CES edition 2015. The interoperability between the connected objects, with changing and multiple alliances, and if some of the products are meeting real needs or are only gadgets, are the main issues detected. Wearables, involving health trackers, as the smartwatch, are getting more specialized and design is getting better, fitting better to the mass market. Robots and home"
"iPod Division on March 31, 2006. On November 3, 2008, ""The Wall Street Journal"" broke the story of Fadell's departure from Apple. While building his energy-efficient home near Lake Tahoe in California, Fadell went looking for a thermostat and was frustrated by the limited features of the devices available. Together with Matt Rogers, a former Apple colleague, he set out to redesign the traditional thermostat. In May 2010, Fadell and Rogers co-founded Nest Labs in Palo Alto, CA. Nest Labs, or Nest, is a company that designs and manufactures a sensor-driven, Wi-Fi-enabled, learning programmable thermostat, now in its third generation."
"Essential Products Essential Products (marketed as Essential) is an American technology company and manufacturer founded on November 9, 2015 by Andy Rubin and based in Palo Alto. The company is currently developing two products, the Android smartphone Essential Phone and Essential Home, which runs Ambient OS. The company was established in Palo Alto on November 9, 2015 by Android co-founder Andy Rubin, with funding from Playground Global. In December 2016, Brian Wallace, who left his occupation as chief marketing officer for Magic Leap a month prior, was reportedly working with Rubin. Trademarks with the 'Essential' brand name were also filed"
"Plaza location where the company's residential energy and upstream business are now based. In 2012, Iberdrola USA sold its energy services companies, Energetix and NYSEG Solutions, to Direct Energy. In early 2014, Direct Energy partnered with Nest Labs to create a plan that would include a smart thermostat. The Nest smart thermostat will increase home owners and renters ability to monitor the temperature of their homes for increased energy efficiency. In August 2014, Direct Energy increased their ability to provide services that increase the efficiency of the American and Canadian home when its announced its partnership with SmartThings. A SmartThing's"
"International CES show, the company rented a house near downtown Las Vegas to demonstrate how devices can be integrated with SmartThings' services. The demo also served to present SmartThings Labs, which allows users to access early-stage device integrations. The connected house featured products from partners like Philips Hue, Belkin WeMo, and Sonos. For one demonstration, a Jawbone UP24 triggered a morning wake-up routine that turned on kitchen lights, began brewing coffee, and tuned a Sonos Play1 to NPR News. In August 2014, SmartThings announced that they had reached an agreement to be acquired by Samsung Electronics and would operate as"
"After the acquisition Netatmo CEO Fred Potter became CTO of the Research & Development department in Legrand. Netatmo Founded in 2011, Netatmo is a French company specialising in connected objects. Three of their products products (their weather station, their thermostat and their camera) have been awarded the ""CES Innovations Design and Engineering Awards"" in 2013, 2014 and 2015 . In 2015, their product 'Welcome', won 4 awards in the following categories: ""Smart Home""; ""Home Appliances""; ""Digital Imaging""; and ""Tech for a better World"". In 2017, the company will be launching a smart smoke detector; in addition to products through partnerships"
"update to add Google Assistant functionality to the device in 2018. Nest Secure is a home security system announced in September 2017. The system consists of Nest Guard (an alarm, keypad, and motion sensor), Nest Detect (a door/window and motion sensor), and Nest Tag (a key chain fob). The product was released in November 2017. Nest also has a partnership with Brinks Home Security for a monthly plan so that the Nest Protect system can be professionally monitored. Nest Hello is a hardwired smart video doorbell with facial recognition. The device was originally slated to launch in February 2018 but"
"Nectar Sleep Nectar Sleep is a mattress and bed frame manufacturer, a brand of DreamCloud LLC that launched in 2017 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California. The brand is sold in the United States and the United Kingdom. Nectar Sleep was co-founded by Craig Schmeizer, Eric Hutchinson and Ran Reske in 2017 with remote operations and does not operate any brick-and-mortar showrooms. As per Inc.com it became one of the world’s fastest growing e-commerce companies by selling more than 50,000 beds and generating $55 million in revenue in the first year of business. The business was launched with no"
"drone"", and a memorial website created from automatically collected information. The next day, Google trademark lawyers issued a cease-and-desist letter to Peng, asking them to change the site and to transfer the domain name to Google. The site replaced its content with a note explaining the situation, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation responded on behalf of Peng with a public letter saying that noncommercial political commentary is not prohibited under trademark law, and that the site wouldn't likely be confused after the ample press coverage received. Nest Labs Nest Labs is an American manufacturer of smart home products including thermostats,"
"Vivint Vivint, Inc. (known as Vivint Smart Home) is a private smart home services provider in the United States and Canada. It was founded by Keith Nellesen and Todd Pedersen in 1999. In 2012, The Blackstone Group acquired Vivint for more than $2 billion. As of March 2018, Vivint had over 1.3 million customers in the U.S. and Canada. It was listed among ""Fast Company""s World's 50 Most Innovative Companies in 2017. In 1999, Keith Nellesen and Todd Pedersen co-founded APX Alarm Security Solutions in Provo, Utah. At the time, the company sold and installed security systems. Vivint began retaining"
"Insteon (company) Insteon is an Irvine, CA-based developer of home automation (aka domotics) hardware and software. The technology, also called Insteon, allows light switches, lights, thermostats, motion sensors, and other electrical devices to interoperate through power lines, radio frequency (RF) communications, or both. The company produces over 200 products featuring the technology. Insteon is a subsidiary of Smartlabs, Inc., also based in Irvine, CA. Insteon was founded in 2005 in Irvine, CA by CEO Joe Dada. Dada had previously founded Smarthome in 1992, a home automation product catalog company, and operator of the Smarthome.com e-commerce site. In the late 1990s,"
"had used to operate. As Nest is a company owned by Alphabet (Google's parent company), the EFF argues this sets a ""terrible precedent for a company with ambitions to sell self-driving cars, medical devices, and other high-end gadgets that may be essential to a person's livelihood or physical safety."" Owners should be free to point their devices to a different server or collaborate on improved software. But such action violates the United States DMCA section 1201, which only has an exemption for ""local use"". This forces tinkerers who want to keep using their own equipment into a legal grey area."
"LivingSmart, which focuses on sustainability and environmental impact, and HomeSmart, which focuses on in-home technology. For example, using the HomeSmart program, Quadrant Homes – one of the Group’s subsidiaries – offers internet-enabled doorbell cameras, thermostats, and Amazon Alexa-enabled devices for voice control capability of the products. In October, 2018, TRI Pointe announced a new division in Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina. Gray Shell will be operating as division president in both Raleigh and Charlotte until the first homes in the area close in 2020. TRI Pointe Group operates six brands. Winchester Homes is a member of TRI Pointe Group, Inc."
"in December 2014. and was featured in an Apple commercial. In 2015 Kinsa launched another product, a BLE smart ear thermometer, which syncs with the app via Bluetooth. It uses the same health tracker app. In 2016, Kinsa launched its third product, a second smart ear thermometer, in partnership with Sesame Street Updates to the app for the new smart thermometer include the voice and image of Elmo who speaks to kids as they're taking their temperatures. Kinsa Kinsa Inc. is a health technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. The company manufactures smart thermometers, currently producing a"
"who was involved with the crime. CES 2018 was held January 9–12, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Many companies such as Amazon, Nvidia, and Google had a presence at the event. The newest model of Sony's Aibo companion robot was featured here, and was noticed as one of the standout items of 2018. In this year, there were 31 CES Innovation Award categories. CES Best of Innovation Award Honorees included Siren Diabetic Socks, 2018 Nissan Leaf, Samsung's first consumer Micro LED TV, Wi-Charge's Long-Range Wireless Power Technology, Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick, 3D Touch Surface Display by Continental"
"was invested in by Stanford University. Verdigris was also one of the 10 inaugural winners of the Founder.org competition, and invested in by Founder.org Capital. NASA was also an early backer of Verdigris, and the two organizations have collaborated on projects including the Sustainability Base at Ames Research Center. Verdigris is headquartered at the NASA Ames Research Park in Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View, California. In December 2016, ""GreenBiz"" called Verdigris one of the ten companies to watch in the area of smart buildings. CBInsights named Verdigris to the 2017 AI 100 list, recognizing the 100 most promising private"