  We're here to talk about
the thoughtful home
but what is a thoughtful
home, what does this mean? What is a thoughtful
home? Well, you know, a
thoughtful home is not just about the
people inside it but it's about
the products, or the way we think
about it, the products inside it. So
long and for so many years
you know, I've been living
since I was a kid with basically
the same infrastructure products
You know, we've seen things, like
being the same
  for decades. But I've seen so
much massive change in
you know, televisions, in
connectivity and telephony
in the home, but many of the other
things in our house haven't changed
So what we've done, because
of the processing and
the cost reductions
that smartphones have brought
to the world in terms of connectivity
as well as compute power
we're able to then instil
these different objects inside
of our home with that power
to then make them connected and
hopefully reinvent
them in a new way. So for
us, you know, we created the Nest learning
thermostat. And now through
that, and we're in many countries
in the world now, we've been able to
help people save energy
individually and also collectively
Somewhere around 4 billion
kilowatt hours have already been
saved. That's equivalent to
over 30 minutes of the entire
US energy consumption
right? And we saved it and people
are still living comfortably. You know, when
we want to talk about energy
efficiency we don't have to go
live in a cave, we can go
and, you know, use products that actually
make it easy to save energy
while still keeping us comfortable. People
have been talking about the connected home
for quite a while. I've attended many
conferences where I've seen
talking refrigerators and
whatnot. Yes.
  How do you make the
kind of, interaction between
consumers and actual human
beings and these devices
in the home meaningful in some
way? How are you doing it at Nest
Well,
  you know, we were pitched, I remember
growing up where it was pitched that
Jetson's world, you know
  the home of the future. It came
every decade, there was a new
home of the future and it
was always, these things were going to be
connected and they were all going to talk
to each other. What we did very
simply was, instead of trying
to think about reinventing every
single product in your home at
once and saying, You need to adopt
this whole new way
of living.' We just said, Let's go
product by product.' Let's
rethink that product in
a smart phone enabled world
and hopefully you'll enjoy that
one. Then over time, if
you buy enough of the different
products, and they don't always have to be from
us, they can start to work together
in a thoughtful way. So in
the case of our thermostat,
  and our smoke and CO detector
if a CO alarm goes
off in the home
  it will automatically turn down
and turn off your boiler
Why? Because usually the number
one case in a home for CO
leakage is the boiler. So
it's simply if you just have those
two products on the network they
talk to each other and they start
to work together in ways
that you don't have to programme. Before
it took a lot of technical
ability to make simple
things work.
