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グーグルが買収したＮｅｓｔ。
アメリカでスマートハウスの実現で光熱費をカットするというスマートメーター＋コントローラ。
いよいよイギリスにも上陸でスマートハウス戦争がイギリスでも始まるということ。

BBCより。
Nest and the battle to control your heating
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26848980

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Competition to be the company that brings smart home technology to Britain and cuts energy bills is hotting up. Nest, the firm whose smart thermostat has been a big hit in the United States, is launching in the UK.

The device, from a team which cut its design teeth at Apple, connects wirelessly to your boiler and can be controlled remotely via a smartphone app. It learns your daily routine and adjusts the temperature accordingly. But, with the weather warming up and at least one energy firm promising to freeze bills, April might not seem the best month to be promising to disrupt the market with new technology.

What's more, this relatively new market is already quite crowded. Hive Active Heating, owned by British Gas, launched last September and is apparently already in 50,000 homes.

Honeywell, whose brand is already familiar in many British homes, has its multi-room system on the market. And a firm called Tado, which is the market leader in this technology in Germany, is now making a big push into the UK.

But Nest has one key advantage - it is now owned by a firm with more money and power than anyone else in the market. In January Google bought Nest for $3.2bn (£1.9bn) and made bold pronouncements about its ambitions to be a player in the connected home.・・・
−イギリスでは先行するメーカーがあるらしいが、アップルのデザインチームをやめた人によるデザイン性の高さと、グーグルのブランドはイギリス国内の先行者には脅威となっている。