Careful with all that cloud technology

The more important component of the new technologies is the Cloud, the concept that Steve Jobs first introduced in our lives with name iCloud. Together this, SaaS is the other concept revolutioned our digital behavior, applications and services living in the Cloud which we can access via app or small software. Apple, Amazon, Google, the big tech are also the big player in the cloud technology, selling their services to companies to developing their own platform.

But there’re also physical devices and objects using the SaaS on Cloud, for example the recharging systems for our electrics vehicles, or the surveillance system of our home, the thermostat.

But what if the Cloud wasn’t accessible or if the company closed its contract with SaaS provider? Right what you are thinking: the service would stop working.

In 2013 Nest built smart thermostats, connected to a server on cloud; Google acquired Nest Labs in January 2014 and in October Nest acquired Revolt, a company to delivery cloud services to the thermostat. The deal was that Revolt would provide the service to Google, and to Nest’ customers, with a lifetime subscription, but in 2016 May all Nest’ device stopped to work, leaving customers with an expensive brick.

The Nest device worked if connected to the cloud service; when Google broke the deal with…