Google Nest vs LogicMachine

 

Intro

Right now many big companies are going into home automation market. It is a playground for everyone who can and cannot do something in this field. For more than 20 years the Internet of Humans was a driver of global economy, now it is the Internet of Machines. You would ask Why? Because now there are more machines than humans on the planet! It is a tremendous market with huge capacity.
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As we can read on Forbes.com:

Google’s Nest Moves To Become Master Of The Smart Home, By Talking To Other Devices

Google planned to make Nest the center of the home, but we are using Nest as a standard thermostat for Real center of home – LogicMachine 🙂

 

Nest’s approach

 

Functionality

Function LogicMachine Wall
Nest
Visualization with deep customization Yes No
Native standard support (KNX, Modbus, BACnet, EnOcean, 1-wire, Bluetooth 4.0 etc.) Yes No
USB extended standards through 3rd party adapter: WiFi, GSM etc. Yes No
3rd party protocol integration (SNMP, SMTP, REDIS, MQTT, JSON, RSS, XML, XMPP, RDF, ZigBee, 6LoWPAN, Zwave etc.) Yes No
Clouding Yes, open Yes, hidden
Sensors humidity+temperature, VOC / CO / CO2 / Air quality, barometer Temperature, Smoke, CO
IR Blaster to control all IR devices in one room like A/C, TV etc. Yes No
Buzzer for sound indications Yes No
Unlimited programming possibilities Yes No
Object logging Yes No
Trends Yes Yes
Logic engine based on events, residential tasks, calendar Yes No
Thermostat Yes Yes
PID, Weather station, Security panel and other functionality Yes No
Notifications over SMS, E-mail, SIP Yes No
IP65 option Yes No

Resume: by using LogicMachine you can create a whole ecosystem by uniting hardware, integrators, developers, designers etc. It perfectly fits into Internet of Things subject and transparently unites world of machines with humans.