Nest Labs' co-founder, Matt Rogers has said his Wash.-based engineers are working on a "top-secret" project. Rogers was cagey in an interview with GeekWire, although he hinted at what form the project may take, saying the next focus of the company will be "enabling other people" to build smarter homes utilising Nest protocols, including Google's Weave and the Works With Nest programme. In short, Nest is making a play to be more than just a hardware manufacturer, and more a provider of entire ecosystems that run IoT devices within the connected home. Rogers added “Today, if you were to build an IoT company, you would have to build all those things yourself, so we’re going to try to take some of those burdens off of those companies.”
Nest Labs' co-founder, Matt Rogers has said his Seattle-based engineers are working on a "top-secret" project. Rogers was cagey in an interview with GeekWire, although he hinted at what form the project may take, saying the next focus of the company will be "enabling other people" to build smarter homes utilising Nest protocols, including Google's Weave and the Works With Nest programme. In short, Nest is making a play to be more than just a hardware manufacturer, and more a provider of entire ecosystems that run IoT devices within the connected home. Rogers added “Today, if you were to build an IoT company, you would have to build all those things yourself, so we’re going to try to take some of those burdens off of those companies.”