The tech giant acquires the open platform for smart home devices to “improve the convenience and services in people’s lives”.
Samsung is treading deeper into the Internet of Things with the announcement Thursday that it has agreed to acquire SmartThings, an open platform for smart home devices.
“This idea of connected homes or smart homes is something Samsung has been thinking about for years,” David Eun, head of Samsung’s Open Innovation Center, or OIC, told CNET. “It became obvious to us [that] this idea of creating a really open platform and making it truly global was absolutely what the industry needed.”
The idea of the acquisition is to pair Samsung’s resources with SmartThings’ platform so that the two can boost innovation in the Internet of Things. Companies across the tech and home-appliances sector, not to mention startups, are working on products that allow devices to talk to each other and connect to the Internet. Smart appliances allow people to do everything from turn on their air conditioners using a smartphone to remotely close the window blinds in their homes.
Source: CNET
