SmartThings

Purchasing SmartThings company in the summer of 2014, Samsung receives in the order the platform of technologies for Internet of Things (Internet of Things, IoT) and the community of developers integrated by the ideas of openness and universality. Perhaps, in Samsung stake on the fact that open standards and platforms will become a key to gaining the market^[1].

In SmartThings, whose office is in the building of the former flour-grinding plant, created the open platform for connection of devices around which the community of independent developers and designers of the equipment was created. Connecting with each other different devices, they implement useful functions.

For example, it is possible to connect a doorbell to the wireless speaker which will make sounds of dog bark. If comes to someone to mind that it is possible to derive benefit from connection of bathroom scales with the refrigerator, it can be made using the platform of applications SmartThings too. In a word, complete freedom for flight of an engineering thought.

But there is a question whether Samsung will realize the principles of SmartThings in the mobile devices on Android or the startup will be isolated, and its innovations and will remain in "a cup Understand" the master's company?

SmartThings gives advantage which at Samsung, unlike her main rival of Apple, no, namely — the growing community of developers. So, perhaps, Samsung it is worth somewhat quicker beginning to convince adherents of SmartThings that the platform of the company will be improved and extend further.

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