If we’ve got the Kyoto treaty driving us towards a zero carbon house, how can we possibly expect consumers to manage those homes efficiently if we’ve got all these different systems and they’re not integrated[?]

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This one device that controls 50% of your home's energy wasn't being innovated at all. It seemed like it was stuck in the ’80s.

—Colin Calder (Passiv Systems) and Tony Faddell (Nest) on their smart thermostat projects