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Weatherbug, the Germantown-based climate monitoring company, has teamed up with multinational conglomerate Honeywell (HON) to produce WiFi thermostats with weather-tracking technology, Washington Business Journal reports.

The thermostats are currently only available for compatible homes in Texas, but Honeywell and Weatherbug say they will be expanding to other states. These thermostats will adjust room temperature based on local weather data and data about the home itself.

The system determines ideal energy outputs for every moment during the day, conserving energy and saving users money.

This move may seem like a new foray for Weatherbug into the Internet of Things space, but Bob Marshall, president and CEO of Weatherbug’s parent company Earth Networks, says Weatherbug has been involved in IoT all along.

The company has for decades employed remote sensors to collect heaps of weather data, used by more than 20 million consumers on Weatherbug’s app, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “We were Internet of Things before Internet of Things was ever named,” said Marshall to the Washington Business Journal. However, Marshall certainly does recognize that this is an important step for Weatherbug, putting its data to new and innovative uses.

“The next evolution is to leverage that hyperlocal, granular weather data we have and couple it with Internet of Things sensors and connect it to the home,” he told Washington Business Journal. This Weatherbug-Honeywell system will likely compete with a number of other new smart home offerings, including Apple’s new Homekit devices.

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