Smart Home is looking for a master. Samsung’s option

At IFA-2014, the components of Samsung Electronics’ future home also arrived. Bu Geun-yoon, President and CEO, presented his vision for the consumer electronics industry. According to him, the “smart home” is not only technology and SMART-equipment. “First and foremost, they are innovations based on the primary needs of users. It’s not about those technologies that boggle the mind, but those that work behind the scenes, seamlessly and reliably, adapting to people’s needs at the right time,” said Mr. Yun. Today, there are six Lifestyle Research Labs, focused on studying people’s modern lifestyles, as many Product Innovation Teams specializing in product innovation, and Design Centers to bring the idea of the smart home to life.

The main categories of Samsung’s future home technology are:

– Show Me – technologies that make complex information visible and useful to you and me.

– Know Me – technologies aimed at learning the needs of users.

– Tell Me – technology that actively adapts to people’s needs, offering them the best solutions without prior request.

Importantly, Samsung’s homes of the future are more than just templates. They are different because they are designed to meet the individual needs of all their residents. A billion different homes that meet each person’s unique needs – that’s what the Koreans want to achieve. For this in the near future will use all their features.

Samsung’s smart home base – the open platform SmartThings. Within a couple of years, SmartThings has managed to build an active ecosystem that supports over a thousand different devices and eight thousand applications, consolidating the efforts of inventors, developers, and manufacturers.

SmartThings CEO Alex Hawkinson believes it has reached a new level: “We are very happy to work together with Samsung. With Samsung’s support and resources, we will be able to extend our platform to more partners and connect even more devices. We’ve come a long way in a relatively short period of time, and we’re really happy to have pulled ahead.”.

And Bu Geun-yoon, representing Samsung, concluded by adding that the creation of homes of the future in their vision is just around the corner. It is clear that the changes will be fast and sweeping.

So. Manufacturer’s plans are clear. Well, we reveal the details of the concept of Samsung Smart Home. What it gives us? First and foremost, of course, is the ability to control a wide range of Samsung household appliances from anywhere in the world: from dishwashers to washing machines, ovens, climate control gadgets, and even lighting in the apartment. It will definitely need a stable Internet connection. You’ll also need a suitable mobile gadget from the Korean company: a smartphone, a tablet or at least a SMART-watch. Although it is possible to control the household appliance even with a Smart TV with gesture recognition technology. A wave of the hand and the robot vacuum cleaner rushes to the battle with dust, and you continue to watch the film. In order to do that, you need to install the appropriate management application in the device in advance.

Another plus is that Samsung’s Smart Home technology will help identify holes in the family budget, control costs. By using it, it is easy to analyze the use of electricity. You can also see who is visiting your home.

We already have some elements of the Smart Home concept available for sale. Users have praised the features of the “smart” air conditioners and the WW9000 washing machine, which can be controlled via Wi-Fi from a smartphone or tablet.

Speaking of laundry. Having a Samsung WW9000 helper, you do not need to hide it from guests looking around your house for the first time. “And here we have nothing interesting, let’s have another look at our Yugoslavian set” – with WW9000 it is interesting even in the bathroom, or wherever you have a washing machine.

Let guests poke their noses at the 5-inch touchscreen, and brag about how much fun you have with this machine, how convenient it is to control the washing process and choose settings with one touch of a screen.

Also at IFA-2014 was a lot of other Samsung home appliances. Tried to knock the guests of the event the newest robotic cleaner POWERbot.

According to the manufacturer, the POWERbot has 60 times more suction power than other Samsung robotic vacuum cleaners. Priced at a thousand euros. The novelty will go on sale next year.

In addition, the Koreans in Berlin presented a compact vacuum cleaner for small apartments Motion Sync and a wireless version of the full-size Motion Sync, Cordless model. In Europe, they can be purchased for $500 and $600 to $700, respectively.

It is impossible not to mention the Water Wall technology demonstrated at IFA-2014. Its point is that the dishwasher uses a revolutionary water distribution system. Instead of a rotating sprinkler under the bottom basket, there is a system where six powerful jets are fed horizontally to a moving reflector, and then they change direction to vertical. It minimizes so-called dead spots – places that remain untouched in conventional dishwashers.

Today, the technology has populated full-size 60 cm wide dishwashers, including built-in. Water Wall will come to us by 2105. The cost is not reported.

Another new technology, HOTBLAST, has been implemented in the manufacturer’s combination free-standing ovens. Cooking time is cut in half thanks to optional air guides.

For some reason, we were not allowed to take photos of the working camera models with HOTBLAST at the show. It’s very strange. But here are for you, so to speak, forbidden pictures of South Korean engineering.

Well, the refrigerators at IFA boasted the guys from Samsung. The emphasis this year has been on expensive variants with lots of extra features.

We saw both the ShowCase model, which has a double refrigerator compartment door for easy access to the most commonly needed products, and models that include a temperature-adjustable compartment, and a novelty with a sparkling water feature.