Microsoft Partners With Johnson Controls for New Cortana Thermostat 'GLAS'

[mmomega]

So how long before Microsoft changes their minds and stops supporting this?

Maybe they should get into making actual Windows.

I wouldn't be surprised if they named their smart speaker just SpeakerBox.

I dunno why but when I read the name for the thermostat the first time, and even now, I think of a car model. It wasn't 'glass' when I first read it but more like each letter pronounced out.
Here's the new Mercedes-Benz GLAS crossover SUV.

 

[Makosuke]

Nice looking, and at least it's not an Alphabet company (it's weird that I've reached the point that I actually trust Microsoft more than Alphabet/Google).

But I sure hope this works better than Jonson Controls' industrial products. In my experience, if this were built like their commercial building systems, it would randomly refuse to heat two rooms in your house and when you complained, customer support would tell you that it was working perfectly then personally insult you.

 

[btrach144]

Congrats to Johnson Controls, the real innovator here.

Johnson controls used Microsoft's Cortana and Microsoft's Azure to develop their solution. It's a partnership, not just Johnson Controls.

 

[elliotsen]

I hope this was properly tested. Ha,ha GLAdoS is back!!

Thought the same thing HAHA

 

[MrX8503]

I just mounted my unused iPad to the wall. Works well enough.

 

[jmgregory1]

Apple already has a solution for this. When I’m wearing my watch and I raise my wrist and say, “hey Siri” both my watch and phone Siri activates, but my phone somehow knows my watch Siri is active and the phone automatically cancels the Siri almost immediately. I haven’t turned on hey Siri on my iPad so I’m not sure how it would playout, but I’m assuming it’ll be similar to how the iPhone and watch combination works, and automatically cancel all but the watch. I can only imagine the home pod will take priority over all other Apple devices since it has long range microphones.

I've noticed this as well, that my iPad will stop the Siri query as soon as my iPhone is working on it. I think my point was more related to just how many devices need to have their own voice assistant, given so many people have their phones on them all the time.

 

[spazzcat]

A computer and phone are something you take with you (or turn off when you don't) and expressly interact with. These devices are permanently attached to your home.

A computer and phone tend to come with security updates for years. These devices often don't.
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Azure, Watson, and Siri are three completely different product categories.

I never turn my phone or computer off. They could easily be always listening to what is being said.

 

[ke-iron]

I've noticed this as well, that my iPad will stop the Siri query as soon as my iPhone is working on it. I think my point was more related to just how many devices need to have their own voice assistant, given so many people have their phones on them all the time.

I see. But then people would argue that their device don’t have a voice assistant and it’s lagging behind current times and technology. It’s safer to have it built in and if you don’t need it, disable it, than to not have the tech built in at all. The latter will have a tremendous negative impact on the company status.

 

[DeepIn2U]

I never said that Siri could, now did I? All I said was since it's Microsoft I'll never consider it. Why? Because Microsoft blows.

Never stated you did. I stated "as if Siri could" meaning we need competition and to recognize this is where Microsoft excels incredibly in given such a short period of time. People really need to get off this hate for a company as if it was an entity or person to convey any emotion to.

 

[jmgregory1]

I see. But then people would argue that their device don’t have a voice assistant and it’s lagging behind current times and technology. It’s safer to have it built in and if you don’t need it, disable it, than to not have the tech built in at all. The latter will have a tremendous negative impact on the company status.

I still say that there is a much bigger issue here. Are we going to live in a world of individual items all with their own voice assistants, or in an integrated world? We're definitely not there with tech that knows which device you're talking to, and given the rapidly expanding offering of IoT devices, including refrigerators and lights and thermostats, etc. I think there needs to be integration if it's going to work in a way that people can live with and have it be integrated in their own lives. I'm guessing that is why Apple got into the Watch / wearables market, as they saw it being a device that people may have on their persons even more than a phone and requires nothing more than raising your wrist to speak into - no pulling your phone out of your pocket.

 

[Urban Joe]

Looks good but that commercial tod me absolutely nothing.