Nest acquisition of smart home platform Revolv

At the start of the year, Google bought a small thermostat manufacturer, nest, at $3.3 billion trillion, with the goal of perhaps a grand integration of global information. But in order to achieve this ambitious goal, Nest must first integrate the data of smart home.

As the end node of intelligent Home System, the integration of nest needs to be carried out from different directions and levels. First of all, to open up their own, to build a nest as the core of the ecosystem, open to the developer API is one of its key initiatives, and secondly, to the horizontal integration of more smart home equipment, for example, this June to 555 million dollars to buy cloud camera Dropcam is one of the horizontal expansion of the action. However, these are the smart home system at the edge of things, to integrate family information, Nest also lacks a core-platform. Works with Nest is the platform in which Nest hopes to create a larger ecosystem by providing compatibility between Nest and third party products.

However, the development of the platform is not overnight. With Google's deep pockets of gold owners, the acquisition of nature is natural. This time, nest is the most flexible smart home platform Revolv, recently nest to the more than 10-Year-old smart Home Platform developers have completed the acquisition, but the specific amount of transactions has not been disclosed.

Revolv Main Intelligent Home Unified Management Center, its product is a small red box. This box through Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, z-wav and other standards with a variety of intelligent home equipment connection, to achieve the unified management of intelligent home.

But Nest's takeover is more like a talent takeover. After the acquisition of Revolv, Nest immediately stopped Revolv products, and the latter's team also immediately joined Nest, its office is still in the original company headquarters Colorado State Boulder City, but will move to a new nest office, for Nest works with Nest platform work.

At the same time, Nest also announced work with Nest several new partnerships, including smart watch Pebble, voice control platform Ivee, Life360, Rachio, and Snupi. Its intelligent home ecological system is gradually implemented steadily.