Nest is a Next-Gen Smart Thermostat

The average home spends more than $2,200 per year on energy bills and roughly half of this amount goes towards heating and cooling, according to the Department of Energy.  When a programmable thermostat is set and used properly, a homeowner can save about $180 annually.  But the problem is, virtually everyone with a programmable thermostat doesn’t set or use it properly.  Nest Labs , a Palo Alto-based start-up, aims to solve this problem with a new thermostat that’s simple, sleek, intuitive, and smart. Tony Fadell, a former Apple executive and founder of Nest Labs, said, “ We’ve built the world’s first learning thermostat — a thermostat for the iPhone generation, ” according to the New York Times .  It’s called Nest, and it’s going to be sold for $250. Nest learns by remembering temperature adjustments entered over time.  It creates a custom schedule from adjustments or can be manually programmed for seven days with 20 set points per day.  Nest shows a leaf when you’re saving energy and displays the time it will take to arrive at a certain temperature.  Nest also has an auto-away mode and can be adjusted remotely through a laptop or mobile phone

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Nest is a Next-Gen Smart Thermostat