Google is testing a smart temperature controller "EnergySense"


BySean dreilinger

Google used to measure and analyze household power consumption in real time "Google PowerMeterAlthough we were offering a web application named "We could not establish the direction we wanted" in 2011Announce service abortiondoing. When such a Google enters the test of "smart thermostat" which can measure and save household power consumption newly in cooperation with smartphone,The InformationIt reports.

Google Trials Smart-Thermostat Service - The Information
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According to The Information, we can hear stories from two of the testers of the Internet-connectable home thermostat (automatic temperature controller) that we are testing and the name of the program is "EnergySenseIt is said that it is called.

The testers said that they are made up of "reliable testers" chosen from outside Google's employees,St. Louis, There is probably a human being registered as a tester even in another place, and the possibility that Google is reconsidering the energy consumption data is intensifying.

ByLeigh Righton

In addition, smart thermostat to be used in conjunction with smartphones already in the USSmart fire alarmCan cooperate withNestCompany's "Nest Thermostat",HoneywellWi - Fi thermostat "RTH 9580",EcobeeCompany also "The ecobee Smart ThermostatWe are already selling products such as. Since the market share has been expanding since we abandoned Google PowerMeter, Google may be planning to enter the smart thermostat market, but for the moment there are no official announcements from Google.

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