Skip to Content

A Command Center for All Your Gadgets

The proliferation of smart gadgets has been stronger and stronger as the months go by. Companies that design and build all of the technology find around your home are working more towards having these smart gadgets in your home that you are able to operate remote if you want to. The idea is that you are able to start chores, do things in your home, and make your home safer and more secure all with just the touch of a button. Of course, along with having all of different gadgets in your home you also need to have a variety of different applications that help run these gadgets remotely. This could get a bit confusing with having to use 4, 5 or 6 different applications to do everything. Now one of the companies that are most highly involved in creating these systems has worked to create a command center for all of your gadgets.

One Application for Everything

Nest, the company behind the technology that offers smart gadgets such as the Nest thermostat and security camera system has created a new application that is designed to act as a central command point for the various Nest smart gadgets that you may have your home. If you are already familiar with how these gadgets work then you know that the technology is mainly driven through the use of an application on your smart phone or a tablet. In the past, you would simply operate and control your thermostat remotely by using the appropriate Nest application. Nest has now incorporated everything into one common command center so that you can control multiple pieces of technology through a single application.

A Promise for the Future

While these efforts may seem only practical you own Nest technology, the plan for the future is that you would be able to incorporate any smart gadgets that you may have in your home to be run through a central command center application. You would then simply be able to open the application on your phone and have the ability to adjust the thermostat, turn on the lights outside your home, start the dishwasher or washing machine, check the security cameras, open the garage door or any other task that can be done with any of the smart hardware that may be in your home. Instead of having to open up various applications were going through several reminders of what to do, it can all be control through a single application no matter what the brand or manufacturer of gadget may be.

What Nest has created shows great promise sure where smart gadgets are concerned. As technology such as this becomes more standard in the homes that exist today it becomes a much more practical to all to have a central system that can control everything for you. There are still adjustments and fine-tuning that will need to be done by having the ability to integrate the various types of hardware used in your home in this manner can help make things much more efficient for and safer for you and your family.