Behind the five major acquisitions of smart homes, where is the giant?

In 2014, it is most suitable for the first year of smart home. However, after the acquisition of the smart home enterprise Nest by Google at the beginning of the year, the smart home industry is no longer a concept. The global companies are rushing to take care of this market. And the variety of smart items have mushroomed, impacting this field, after the Internet companies such as Xiaomi Ali, the market is in a chaotic competition.

Google's layout giant is cross-border and ambitious

1, smart home ($3.2 billion) acquisition of Nest

In 2011, Google announced a plan to bring android into the living room, at least android can be used to control the lights in the user's home, the project was named "android@home".

In January of this year, Google spent $3.2 billion to acquire nest, officially entering the smart home market. Google said that after the acquisition, NestLabs will retain the original company name and management team.

What kind of company is Nest? This is a doubt that most people have. NestLabs was founded four years ago by "the father of the iPod" Tony Fadell and former Apple software engineer Matt Rogers. Currently, Nest has two smart home products, thermostats and smoke detectors, which serve users by collecting data on user habits, and current sales are very strong. Obviously, Google is very passionate about data and may use this valuable user information to improve services such as googlenow and Google Maps.

2, Google Nest 553 million US dollars to acquire Dropcam

At the beginning of 2014, Google's 3.2 billion US dollars won the famous smart home equipment provider Nest Labs, causing a lot of sensation in the global smart home industry. At the end of June 2014, Nest Labs, which was recently compiled by Google, acquired Dropcam, a video surveillance and security startup, for $555 million. Although NEST has a small variety of products, it is not surprising that it has the reputation of "the apple of the smart home industry" and it makes Google willingly pay a big price. On the contrary, the Dropcam, which was originally used as a “watching dog” monitoring device, can also be worth $555 million, which is even more surprising.

When it comes to acquisitions, I have to mention Dropcam. What kind of company is this?

Dropcam is based in San Francisco, USA, and one of its founders is Greg Duffy. Initially, Duffy’s father often wondered which of the dogs in the neighbors were in his yard, so he often played with the webcam and wanted to rely on it to monitor the yard. The dog in the urine. However, he can't play with his camera. On the one hand, these cameras don't always work, and on the other hand he doesn't want to save a lot of video files on his hard drive. In order to help Duffy's father solve this problem better, Duffy and his friend Virani came up with the idea of ​​a home surveillance camera. This camera should be able to start itself when it detects motion and store the surveillance video on the cloud. . So later, there was today's Dropcam.

3, Google Nest Labs acquired smart home manufacturer Revolv

Recently, Google's Nest Lab announced on Friday that it will acquire smart home furnisher Revolv, which will stop operations and its team will be integrated into Nest's intelligent thermostat business. Google’s tentacles have expanded into the smart home space and are gradually advancing its smart home networking program.

Revolv is located in Boulder, Colorado, USA, and provides an intelligent network device aggregation platform that enables users to “talk” to multiple networked devices in the home under a unified platform.

Comment: Google, Google is an Internet search engine developed by Google. Mainly provide web search, image search, map search, news search, blog search, forum search and so on. Why do an Internet company frequently shoot, pointing to smart home?

Since 2001, Google has spent a total of $28 billion to acquire 163 companies. In other words, Google buys a company almost every month. Google's acquisitions can be described as "various", including a variety of companies, services and technologies, such as map companies, security services, gadgets, robots, games and facial recognition software. This year's smart home, you can see Google's love for the big cake of smart home, it is difficult to hide its ambition.

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