Samsung’s SmartThings Ecosystem Gets Matter Support Samsung’s SmartThings Ecosystem Gets Matter Support Samsung has announced that it is partnering with IBM to bring the IBM Watson cognitive computing platform to its SmartThings ecosystem. This partnership will allow Samsung to add cognitive capabilities to its devices and services, making them more intelligent and able to interact with users and other devices in the ecosystem. This move by Samsung is important because it shows that the company is committed to expanding its ecosystem of devices and services. The addition of cognitive capabilities will make the SmartThings ecosystem more powerful and useful, allowing users to manage their homes more easily. Samsung is also partnering with other companies in the industry, such as Intel, so that the SmartThings ecosystem will be even more powerful. ..
The South Korean giant announced an expanded partnership with Google to not only welcome Matter products into its ecosystem, but also to support interoperability with Google’s own Home ecosystem. If you have any smart home devices set up in Google Home that SmartThings can support as well, it will prompt you to set them up on the other app, and vice versa. Users will no longer have to manually add each of their devices one at a time, nor will they have to worry about which ecosystem their device has been configured on initially.
And to allow for Matter products to be enrolled, Samsung’s SmartThings hubs are getting an update to support them very soon. Once the update is out, you’ll be able to control Matter devices through Wi-Fi and Ethernet via the v2 hub, while the AEOTEC v3 hub and the SmartThings dongle will also function as Thread border routers.
This update should arrive later this month, so if you’re in Samsung’s ecosystem of smart home products and you have any Matter devices, or if you were planning to buy any, you can expect them to work more closely very soon.
Source: Samsung, The Verge
