Green Building, Product Spotlight:
Make Your Nest Cozy & Smart
Just in time to keep you cozy during the winter chill, Nest Learning Thermostat makes an electric entrance. The smart thermostat learns from your behaviors, preferences and surroundings to create a custom heating and cooling schedule, keeping you comfortable when you’re home and conserving energy when you’re away. Using advanced technologies, high-quality manufacturing processes and sleek, sophisticated design, Nest Learning Thermostat (pre-order for $249.00) is an easy to use and energy efficient way to bring your home’s central heating into the 21st century. You can even manage it from your iPhone, which isn’t surprising, considering there is some serious iPod/Apple royalty reigning there.
Some of the eco-features that have us hot under the collar are:
1. Auto-Away - built-in sensors note when there’s no activity in the house for a few hours and then Nest turns down the heat or cooling
2. The Nest Leaf - shows up on the thermostat when you select a temperature that’s energy-conserving for you
3. Time to Temperature - shows you how long it will take to heat or cool your home to help teach people that you don’t need to crank up the heat or cooling to get to the temperature you want
4. Energy History - shows you your energy use and why it’s higher or lower vs. the previous week (e.g. the weather, Auto-Away kicking in, you changed the temperature).
