Tag: Alex Hawkinson

SmartThings Open Cloud & the ARTIK Chip

During the opening keynote address yesterday at the annual IoT World conference, Alex Hawkinson joined Samsung Electronics President and Chief Strategy Officer Young Sohn on stage to announce a new open software and data aggregation cloud called SmartThings Open Cloud. This offering is a companion to a Samsung line of IoT modules called ARTIK, which was also announced yesterday. Read More

[VIDEO] America’s Smartest Home

The Wall Street Journal recently explored what it’s like to live in “America’s smartest home”– a two-story Craftsman where SmartThings’ CEO Alex Hawkinson has breathed life into more than 100 devices to gain convenience, peace of mind, and security. Read More

Welcome to the Programmable World

Writer Bill Wasik examines how SmartThings is helping to revolutionize the way people interact with the things around them in this cover article for Wired:

“In our houses, cars, and factories, we’re surrounded by tiny, intelligent devices that capture data about how we live and what we do. Now they are beginning to talk to one another. Soon we’ll be able to choreograph them to respond to our needs, solve our problems, even save our lives…” Read More