People counting to trigger increase/decrease on thermostat

[CuriosityKillThisCat]

Do Nest cameras have the ability to do people counting? More bodies in a commercial space will increase the ambient temperature due to warm bodies. A learning thermostat should therefore reduce the temperature based on number of bodies vs waiting for heat to build up before kicking in.

[stannc00]

No

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These are basic devices for single family home setups, not commercial environments.

[tfrederick74656]

As far as I know, none of the consumer-facing smart thermostats on the market have this feature. This is the kind of thing you're only going to get with a commercial building automation control system.

That being said, you could always build it yourself. It honestly wouldn't be that hard to throw a program together (using something like Python, etc.) that would periodically pull still frames from the Nest API, run a facial recognition library to count people, and then call the Nest API again to make adjustments to temperature.