Open platform for the smart home and the consumer Internet of Things: recommendations and the real value of Samsung.

With the flexibility and the technologies offered by the new IT Convergence, the smart home hype wins in power and developers and devices makers continues to unlock the limitless possibilities of the consumer Internet of Things.

When it comes to the smart home, if unfamiliar, Connectikpeople.co, soon #Retinknow®, talks about appliance (combination of software and hardware), we talk about the ability to remotely: monitor, control, and automate your homes and desks from wherever you are, through a single mobile app.

SmartThings, is one of the key actors of this industry. Its cloud-based open platform supports about 1,000 devices and 8,000 apps created by its community of device makers, inventors, and developers.

When it comes cloud-based open platform intended for the smart home, Connectikpeople.co, soon #Retinknow®, always recommends a flexible, agile, scalable, comprehensive, seamless and end-to-end encrypted solution.   

Henceforth, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., and SmartThings, combines their expertise and knowhow , with the goal to improve the convenience and services in people’s lives by giving their devices and appliances a voice , to interact more easily with them.

SmartThings, will become part of the Samsung Open Innovation Center (OIC), which is responsible for bringing software and services innovation to Samsung Electronics. SmartThings will move its headquarters from Washington, DC to Palo Alto, California.