How to Use Machine Learning (and People) to Make Buildings Better There’s a major thing that many office building managers tend to overlook when setting the heating and cooling system: the people inside them. Funny enough, it turns out people can sometimes be the best way to run a building efficiently. A four-year-old startup called Comfy (formerly named Building Robotics) uses workers in office b
Tony Fadell, who co-founded home automation company Nest in 2010, is stepping down. Fadell, who made his name as the “father of the iPod” while at Apple, said in a blog post on Friday that he will be leaving his day-to-day job as Nest’s CEO, but will remain an advisor to both Nest and its parent company, Alphabet (formerly Google) (GOOG). Marwan Fawaz, the former executive vice president of Motoro
The power grid that leads into the site of the California solar farm that will provide Apple with electricity. Some day the power grid may operate a lot more intelligently, using data sources like the Internet does. But until then, there will be a growing need for new technology to create, crunch, and analyze energy data. On Tuesday, startup AutoGrid, which has developed data analytics for utiliti
Oracle Is Buying the Software Company That Wants to Manage Your Energy Use Oracle is at it again. It’s buying Opower, a company that sells data analytics software to big energy companies in a deal worth about $532 million, net of Opower’s cash. If you don’t know Opower, which went public two years ago, you might know its work. Its “demand-side management” software powers those nudgey notes from yo
先日、GoogleがAmazon Echoのまねっこ端末を準備中という記事を書いたとき、ネタ元のThe Informationの記事を読んでたら、iPodの父でNestのCEOであるトニー・ファデルがずいぶんとヒドイ人みたいなことになっていてびっくり。 そういえば、Googleが鳴り物入りでNestを買収してから2年以上経ちますが、目立つ動きが全然ありません。せっかくIoTの先端にいたはずの同社が、どうしたんでしょう。(右の画像は買収された当時のファデルさんとGoogleのサーゲイ・ブリン。2人は仲良しだそうです。) 2014年にDropcamを買収したときは、これでサーモスタットだけじゃなくてホームセキュリティこみの本格的なスマートホームラインアップを拡大していくんだろうなと思ったのに、Dropcamの名前を変えて販売を続けるくらいで発展しません。 The Informationの記事は
Years ago, big retailers and tech companies installed solar panels as a way to take an environmental stance. But these days it’s often an economic choice that is fueled by the promise of lower and less volatile energy costs. On Tuesday, Whole Foods (WFM) said that it planned a huge project to cover nearly one-fourth of its stores with solar panels. After construction is complete, Whole Foods says
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