Samsung acquires SmartThings to expand smart home platform

According to international reports, Samsung Electronics recently said that the company will launch a software toolkit based on the smart home platform later this year.

On the eve of IFA 2014 in Berlin, Germany, Samsung said that it will open its smart home platform to third-party products in the future, which means that Galaxy mobile phone users can use S Voice voice recognition function to remotely control air conditioners, vacuum cleaners and smart LED bulbs.

A few weeks ago, Samsung acquired SmartThings, an open smart home platform. SmartThings will use Samsung's smart home wireless network protocol Thread jointly launched by ARM and Nest, and join the high-performance (real estate) IoT alliance established jointly with Intel.

SmartThings

Samsung's acquisition of SmartThings is the fourth technology giant to integrate smart homes in its product and service systems following the acquisition of Nest by Google, the launch of HomeKit by Apple and Honeywell, and the strategic cooperation between Microsoft and Insteon. Through the acquisition of SmartThings, Samsung will acquire a mature home automation platform, and all that the company needs is to promote it.

However, compared with smart home "star" products such as nest, Dropcam, the influence of SmartThings does not seem so optimistic as people have predicted.

Nest is known as the apple of the smart home industry, and its penetration rate in the United States is very high. Its thermostats and smoke detectors are household names, while Dropcam uses baby surveillance cameras to enter the retail stores of Apple and Best Buy, which ranks first in Amazon.

SmartThings is not, there is no strong product, and now it has attracted everyone's attention because it was acquired by Samsung, so I can't help but let the author think that Samsung is hoping to be a smart home, so after expanding and strengthening the home appliances, it announced its smart home platform. "Samsung Smart Home", which allows users to control all connected devices from a wearable device, camera to washing machine, refrigerator, with a single application. After LG launched the smart light bulb in March, Samsung also launched a smart light bulb that can be connected in time.

In the smart home situation, Samsung really does not have many leading products. People are impressed by mobile phones and electrical appliances. Compared with Google, which burns money, Google’s large-scale acquisitions have gained a lot of popularity, and then compared with Apple, Apple. The reputation is quite high, and it is a one-size-fits-all, and it does not require much effort. Therefore, it can be said that in today's smart home, Samsung's voice is much smaller, and the acquisition can be seen as Samsung's comeback.

About SmartThings

SmartThings is a startup company based on iOS system to develop smart home. Its main direction is home automation platform, which can easily control Android and Apple system users to easily control various household equipment and household appliances through a simple application, including electric lights and door locks. Electronics, home appliances and other connected home devices. It is rumored that the birth of SmartThings was caused by the company’s president Alex Hawkinson who lost a family accident of $80,000. After returning from his family’s winter trip, Alex Hawkinson found that his house on the mountain was frozen due to water cuts when the water was stopped. The body continued to ooze and was damaged, and nothing was known before. In order to solve this problem, Alex Hawkinson established SmartThings in the continuous exploration with his partners.

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