Samsung Showcases Evolution of SmartThings and Introduces New Device Experiences at SDC22 - Samsung Global Newsroom

Samsung’s self-secured, integrated SmartThings and Bixby level make a safe, elemental and convenient astute location acquisition for multi-device households

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. held its yearly Samsung Developer Conference (SDC) contiguous successful San Francisco, bringing unneurotic developers, creators and designers to research seamless, connected experiences powered by Samsung.

During the event, Samsung shared much astir its committedness to creating simplified, game-changing lawsuit experiences, including the company’s updated imaginativeness for SmartThings arsenic it evolves from a connectivity level to an enabler of smarter lifestyles. From deeper integration with Bixby to seamless connectivity with Matter-compatible devices, SmartThings is creating a richer, much unfastened satellite that empowers each users to streamline their connections and their regular lives.

“At Samsung, we continuously innovate our devices, platforms and services to beryllium simpler and much convenient. I americium arrogant to stock the adjacent procreation of our work, similar SmartThings, to further our collaboration with partners and developers,” said Jong-Hee (JH) Han, Vice Chairman, CEO and Head of Device eXperience (DX) Division astatine Samsung Electronics. “As technologies go much complex, we volition ever hunt for ways to marque beingness easier, much connected, and much flexible, truthful our consumers tin absorption connected what matters most.”

Connecting Platforms and Devices With Calm Technology

Samsung’s imaginativeness of seamless connectivity is inspired by the doctrine of Calm Technology — where devices instantly enactment together, truthful consumers tin prevention clip connected setup and get close into the experience. To recognize this vision, Samsung reimagined SmartThings and its connected services and partnerships, including Samsung’s Hub Everywhere, extending its capabilities to the full astute location with audio and ocular information arsenic good arsenic SmartThings Energy, SmartThings Pet and SmartThings Cooking. Samsung besides partnered with Philips Hue to integrate Philips Hue Sync close into Galaxy devices truthful astute location lighting tin lucifer with music.

The seamless acquisition volition extend beyond Samsung’s ecosystem through SmartThings’ integration with Matter and Samsung’s rank successful the Home Connectivity Alliance. Google and Samsung person worked unneurotic to alteration users to find and nexus their devices crossed platforms by gathering multi-admin diagnostic connected Matter devices. The collaboration volition bring much devices and users into the connected location successful the future.

Bixby has been integrated much profoundly with SmartThings, a instrumentality for developers to physique much intelligent dependable idiosyncratic interface experiences. As Samsung’s typical dependable adjunct platform, Bixby has evolved to go the on-device AI solution capable to power idiosyncratic Galaxy devices, arsenic good arsenic the cross-device acquisition passim the Samsung ecosystem. With the caller Bixby Home Studio, developers tin present physique differentiated, customized experiences for the SmartThings platform. In addition, Bixby volition beryllium adjacent much wide disposable to users with enactment for Latin American Spanish, starting successful November.

As the astute location is becoming much advanced, Samsung is introducing a caller information paradigm, enabling Samsung devices to support each other. Samsung Knox Matrix¹ is simply a backstage blockchain based level that turns eligible Samsung devices into a shield to support users’ full instrumentality ecosystem — from Galaxy devices to TVs and location appliances. Plus, users tin customize idiosyncratic privateness settings with the caller Security and privateness dashboard, which scans for vulnerabilities, recommends information updates and gives users information absorption options to support privateness and information apical of mind.

Personalized Services for Better Experiences

In the past year, Samsung TV Plus — Samsung’s free, ad-supported streaming TV and video (FAST) level disposable connected Samsung Smart TVs² and mobile devices — reached 100% maturation successful viewership,³ and projects 3 cardinal hours streamed by the extremity of the year. To physique connected this momentum, Samsung TV Plus has expanded its offering by adding partnerships with Lionsgate and Vice Media, providing 8K video connected demand. Samsung TV Plus has besides gone done a redesign, to bespeak its bonzer assortment of contented with much than 1,600 channels crossed 24 countries. Samsung TV Plus is the premium prime for a seamless advertisement experience, wherever watercourse stitching makes advertisement playback simpler than ever.

After 10 years of service, Samsung’s Tizen operating strategy (OS) continues to connection best-in-class idiosyncratic experiences. The Samsung Gaming Hub brings better, faster and much convenient entree to gaming connected Samsung Smart TVs, provided by industry-leading partners, specified arsenic Xbox, NVIDIA GeForce NOW, Utomik and Amazon Luna. Samsung Gaming Hub bridges expertise successful hardware and bundle to integrate features similar AI Upscaling and multitask functions to marque gaming connected Samsung Smart TVs an immersive, optimized experience.

Tizen OS is besides expanding to connection NFTs support with partners similar Art Token, laCollection and Nifty Gateway. For B2B customers and developers, Samsung is providing B2B APIs circumstantial to industries and usage cases similar Syncplay, which allows contented to beryllium synchronized and played successful aggregate signages. Tizen is besides introducing SALT, a caller contented conversion solution to show the highest-quality HDR10+ contented connected supported TVs.

Your Galaxy, Your Way With One UI 5

By introducing the caller One UI 5, Samsung has empowered users to easy customize their device’s look and feel, portion enhancing productivity and providing astonishing experiences crossed devices and platforms. One UI 5 brings much personalized experiences with custom-built Modes and Routines, and a Dynamic Lock screen that displays aggregate visuals connected your phone, your Galaxy Watch and different One UI 5 devices. With the caller Bixby Text Call feature, Bixby Voice volition reply calls connected your behalf and stock typed messages with the caller, speaking aloud arsenic if you had answered. One UI 5 besides introduces caller regular wellness solutions to assistance way wellness and wellness successful 1 place. This includes the Samsung Privileged Health SDK, which enables developers to physique apps that leverage the BioActive Sensor connected the Galaxy Watch.⁴

Future-Forward Investment and Research

Samsung Research is looking beyond today’s skyline to innovate for a amended tomorrow, afloat of relentless innovation and unfastened collaboration. Samsung Research is making its robot limb manipulation codification disposable connected GitHub, enabling academics, researchers and developers to analyse caller ideas successful robotic manipulation.

The squad astatine Samsung Research was besides inspired by the caller wellness features Samsung has introduced, peculiarly connected the Galaxy Watch5. To find caller use-cases leveraging these features, Samsung Research is moving with universities and healthcare institutions that volition research areas similar bosom health, stress, humor pressure, lung wellness and neuroscience. As a result, Samsung is offering a afloat stack SDK — the Samsung Health Stack — which volition jumpstart probe into important wellness fields and spark caller development.

Samsung invites developers, creators, partners and much to articulation successful connected its committedness to unfastened collaboration and seamless experiences. For much accusation astir the Samsung Developer Conference (SDC) 2022, delight sojourn developer.samsung.com.

¹ Starting arsenic aboriginal arsenic precocious 2023, Samsung Knox Matrix volition beryllium initially disposable connected selected Samsung devices. Support for different manufacturers’ products volition travel later.

² Samsung TV Plus is disposable for selected Samsung Smart TVs only.

³  Viewership from September 2021 to August 2022 compared to viewership from September 2020 to August 2021

⁴ Available connected Galaxy Watch4 bid and Galaxy Watch5 series.