By 2020, every single product that Samsung sells will be connected to the Internet of Things. It’s plan is to make all of the new IOT products as an open platform so that developers around the world can develop new and innovative usages.
SAMSUNG WANTS THE INTERNET OF THINGS TO BE TOTALLY OPEN
In essence, Samsung’s idea is that just about every device you have — and even products like chairs, that you don’t normally expect to see technology in — will be connected and talking to each other. On a basic level, Samsung imagines that you’ll be able to take off your headphones when you arrive home and have the music they were playing automatically start up through your speaker system. But Samsung also sees this connectivity extending outside of the home. When you go up to a digital kiosk, such as a map at a large mall, Samsung imagines that your phone might automatically connect to it and change the graphic’s language to whatever you primarily speak.
Samsung’s new products include a connected washing machine that lets you add socks during a wash cycle
The Korean electronics giant announced a new smart home-monitoring camera that, like the Nest Cam, is designed to automatically record clips only when important events occur. Perhaps the biggest announcement from an IoT perspective, however, was the new sleep-tracking device, designed to slip under your pillow and provide much more accurate sleep tracking and analysis than standard fitness-tracking wristbands.
The Samsung Sleep Sense is a disc-shaped device that can track your pulse, movement and respiratory rate while you sleep, without anything needing to be in contact with your body. According to Samsung, it’s even capable of monitoring your metabolism, and it can link up with other Samsung connected kit, turning your air-conditioner or thermostat to a set level when you go to bed, or switching off your TV if you drift off to sleep.