Kamil Domański has an article on Google Nest-flavored IoT reversing:

In the buzzword-powered world of IoT there doesn’t really seem to be as much innovation as some would have you think. The hundredth “smart” camera, door lock or lamp don’t really disrupt much, yet some players in this space seem to be getting far ahead of the others. A notable player in this space is Nest Labs who after their acquisition by Google rose to be one of the most prominent brand names in this space, now a subsidy of Alphabet. Here at Protonet we consider owning and having access to your own data as one of our core values – thus as much as we admire Alphabet’s tech, we’re sceptical about it’s cloud only approach to smart home products. It’s not much of a surprise then that we picked Nest products for our research efforts when looking into integration of different kinds of smart devices. […]

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