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Nest engineering & design in Building for the Home

Mar 20, 2017

Google Cloud Dataflow In the Smart Home Data Pipeline

By Matt & Riju

Nest engineering & design in Building for the Home

Jan 26, 2017

Seeking 100GB of Video: How We Made Sightline

By Kevin

Nest engineering & design in Building for the Home

Sep 13, 2017

Hinging on Design: Nest Cam IQ’s Hinge

By Tristin and Rafat

Nest engineering & design in Building for the Home

Oct 30, 2017

Designing a new member of the thermostat family

By Diane and Benjamin

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Nest engineering & design in Building for the Home

May 17, 2017

An Open Foundation for the Connected Home

By Jonathan

The Origin of Thread

The moment Nest expanded our product line beyond the Nest Learning Thermostat, we were in new territory. Multiple smart home devices not only needed to…

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Nest engineering & design in Building for the Home

May 17, 2017

Bringing Machine Learning to the Connected Home

By Aren

A TensorFlow & Nest Cam Codelab

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Nest engineering & design in Building for the Home

Oct 2, 2017

The film-based materials science behind Nest Thermostat E’s frosted display

By Giancarlo & Kevin

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Nest engineering & design in Building for the Home

Jun 29, 2017

Building for the Home. And Designing for the People & Families Who Live There.

By Matt R.

Nest set out to tackle difficult problems with simple, effective technology. We started with energy consumption and the thermostat, which controls…

Nest engineering & design in Building for the Home

Jan 26, 2017

Welcome to Building for the Home!

By Nik

Welcome. We’re engineers at Nest, focused on creating a home that takes care of the people inside and the world around it. We call it the Thoughtful Home. Thanks for being here!

Nest engineering & design in Building for the Home

Sep 21, 2017

Beautiful products & the engineering behind them

By Nik

This week we revealed Nest Secure — our simple, beautiful, feature-packed home security solution. Making products that are simple and intuitive to use takes a lot of hard engineering.

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Building for the Home

Building innovative products for the home that are simple, beautiful, and affordable isn’t easy. Nest‘s designers and engineers are dedicated to creating thoughtful products and solving all of the challenges that get in their way. This blog is for sharing our stories.

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