Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Cortana-powered thermostat hands-on”.
Hey guys, this is Tommy The Verge and we’re looking at the Johnson Controls glass thermistor. This is actually the first Cortana powered thermistor. As you can see, it’s got translucent display, and so you can see straight through and that’s actually a 5.9 inch samsung manufactured OLED panel. So it’s kind of unusual we haven’t seen any sort of thermostat that looks like this and, to be honest, we don’t really see many translucent displays anyway. So it’s made by Johnson Controls now these guys have been manufacturing thermostats ever since the very original 135 years ago.
So you could say they probably know what they’re doing and now they’ve partnered with Microsoft and it’s running on Windows, 10 IOT core. That probably doesn’t mean a lot to you, but what it does mean is essentially it’s running on a Qualcomm chip, and so it’s really like a Internet of Things device, but it’s gon na be a thermostat. That’S going to sit on your wall control, your heating, your calling and everything else. So we’ve seen a bunch of different smart thermostats, one from the nest. That’S obviously the big player in the market. Echo bees got one with a lexer integration and the difference with Johnson Controls, they’re kind of really digging into monitoring your house in a way that perhaps the other thermostats are, and so this free sensors inside here this carbon dioxide sensor and there’s other sensors they’re going To monitor like your air quality but they’re gon na work out what the air quality is inside and out, so that will help with like cool when your cooling systems are coming on, or even your heating systems there’s even stuff like emergency stuff for when you’re away. So if you’re in a really cold city like New York City has been recently and then, if you’re away, this thermostat will like spin up and keep your components like all safe and safe and sound. So this just dig into exactly what you can do this thermostat.
Obviously, you can control it with your fingers and with touch as you’d expect, and you get all the sort of information you would expect from like an interface on a thermostat and, what’s really different, is obviously the Cortana integration, hey Cortana, what’s the weather like in London? Okay, so at the moment of the quarter, no integration is fairly basic and Johnson Controls tells me that that in the future and there’s going to be a lot of visual cues, the sort of stuff you’d expect from Cortana on the PC. But the moment it’s only voice and it’s going to respond to us in terms of the user interface and you’ve also got a lot of the energy-saving settings that you’d expect and you can dig in work out what energy you saved. You can even set smart controls on stuff like your heating, so you can edit a schedule similar to sort of sort stuff, you’d see on the most smart firm steps and you can copy those across to other days pretty easily and there’s also a mobile.
Now that will be the exact same sort of user interfaces. What we’re seeing here, and so you can set all those sort of things from afar as well. If you don’t want to constantly play with the screen and but yeah as you can see, it’s a pretty I’d say: we’ve said before it’s a pre, beautiful diverse and I think that plays for it’s a pretty unique because of translucent display as well.
So Johnson Controls is actually pitching us in the consumer space, so it’s gon na be sold through the Microsoft Store and through their own retail outlets, and you innovate to get this installed by a technician or you can actually do it yourself and there’s going to be. Like visual cues on the screen, it will tell you which wire’s you’ve connected in which you haven’t, and so it can be available for pre-order in March, and it’s going to run for around about $ 319 and for that you’re gon na obviously get all the cultura Integration of translucent display and just a kind of really unique thermostat that we haven’t really seen elsewhere. Okay.
So it’s a real quick look at the Johnson Controls, glass thermostat, which is obviously cool, tanner powered and four more devices at CES this week. Don’T forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel and you’ll see a lot more. Just like this: hey Cortana, hey Cortana, hey Cortana, .
