Honeywell announces cloud API program for home automation software. Altadyn completely upends multipoint video conferencing market with super cheap pricing for product built on Google Hangouts. Plus: petroleum and gas time-series data now included in US Energy Information Administration API, Amazon’s new subscription API, and 10 new APIs.
Honeywell Raises Temperature on its Wifi Thermostats with New API
Honeywell has announced its Comfort Control API to give consumers greater control over energy use in their homes. It is now in beta testing with four companies: Akuacom. Opower, Lutron Electronics and Control4.
According to the press release, the API is meant to control the company’s Wi-Fi series of thermostats:
“The Comfort Control API is an effort by Honeywell to accelerate energy efficiency, innovation, and expand the seamless integration of products and services. “Honeywell subscribes to the belief that peoples’ lives are made easier — and better — if devices and products talk to each other,” said Tony Uttley, general manager home comfort and energy systems at Honeywell. “With the Comfort Control API, our thermostats will communicate with other apps and devices, which gives consumers a greater experience of convenience, control, an energy management within their home.”
Potential partners can visit www.ecc.honeywell.com/api for more information.
Altadyn Transforms Google Hangouts into WebConferencing
Altadyn has taken on the Goliaths of cloud-based video conferencing with its Business Hangouts product, built on top of Google Hangouts
John Koetsier at Venturebeat says that pricing for this greaeasy to use product may well be the stone that fells the more expensive rivals:
…”this little-known company has the potential to shake up web video conferencing, because creating an account and starting small-scale videoconferences with up to 20 participants is free, does not require a credit card, and uses technology and processes almost all of us are already familiar with.”“It’s bridging the gap between traditional webinar platforms and Google Hangouts — which is very innovative, by far the most advanced technology, able to handle up to millions of simultaneous viewers — but which has been designed for Google+ for casual and informal hangouts,” [CEO Darius] Lahoutifard says.
The product is still in public beta, awaiting a freeze of the feature set once testing with a few thousand users is completed.
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