Nest Gets Into the Smart-Lock Game by Going Old School | WIRED

Nest Gets Into the Smart-Lock Game by Going Old School | WIRED

SUBSCRIBE Aaron Sorkin on turning Steve Jobs into a film icon wrd.cm/1YRssTf Date of Publication: 10.01.15. 9:00 am Nest Gets Into the Smart-Lock Game by Going Old School Yale Linus Yale Jr. founded his lock company in 1868. One hundred and forty-seven years later, the company continues to make locks—door locks, padlocks, safe locks—and some are a lot like the gear it made way back in the 19th century. But others are a little different. They're online. Today, Yale, the company, unveiled a digital lock that taps into the "smart home" system designed by Nest. The Google-owned Nest makes Internet-connected thermostats, security cameras, and smoke detectors that also handle carbon monoxide, but that's not all. It also offers a variety of tools that let other companies connect their own devices with the various Nest gadgets. The idea is that you can control all these devices with a single smartphone app—and that each device can talk to the others. You can, say,

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