Samsung Continues to Bet on SmartThings Hub's Integrated Features

Samsung today announced the launch of Samsung Home Hub, a new way to manage home appliances through an innovative touchscreen, tablet-style device that provides instant access to connected and personalised home services. Samsung Home Hub offers enhanced connectivity with a variety of smart home appliances and uses Artificial Intelligence and SmartThings to understand users' needs and automatically propose solutions. The device also helps users optimise tasks and responsibilities through one device that can be easily shared by all family members in the same home. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version).

"Samsung Home Hub enables seamless connectivity for the smart home and makes users' lives much easier. It understands their preferences and configures all home devices and smart appliances according to that knowledge, gained through artificial intelligence," says Hyesoon Yang, executive vice president of Samsung. "Our devices' connectivity and Samsung Home Hub's intuitive interface allow everyone at home to quickly view their to-do lists and responsibilities."

Personalized experiences with AI and SmartThings

For the first time, a wide range of personalized AI-based SmartThings services have been brought together and can be controlled from a dedicated device with Samsung Home Hub. These SmartThings services fall into the categories of cooking, clothes care, pet care, air, energy and home care assistant. To make dinner time easier, SmartThings Cooking allows, for example, the user to conveniently search, plan, buy and prepare weekly meals with Family Hub?. When it's time to do laundry, SmartThings Clothing Care connects to Samsung appliances and offers personalized care options based on fabric types, patterns and the weather season. With SmartThings Pet the user can keep an eye on their pets with the smart camera on the Bespoke Jet Bot? AI + and adjust, for example, air conditioner settings to make the environment more comfortable for their pets.

"The mission of SmartThings has always been to create experiences that can make people's lives better. To bring that mission to life, we have redoubled our enhancement of SmartThings technology and this is the next step in Samsung's vision to make every home connected," said Jaeyeon Jung, Vice President of Samsung Electronics and Head of SmartThings. "With the breadth of Samsung's portfolio and the open, versatile and flexible platform offered by SmartThings, we are uniquely positioned to meet the growing demand for connected home devices that has been growing since the start of the pandemic." SmartThings Hub capabilities will be available on select Samsung products throughout 2022.