The SmartThings Blog

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. (more…)

To kick off this year's International Consumer Electronics Show, SmartThings CEO, Alex Hawkinson, joined Samsung's president and CEO, BK Yoon, on stage to deliver an opening keynote address focused on the future of the Internet of Things. (more…)

Speaking at yesterday's GigaOM Structure conference, SmartThings CEO Alex Hawkinson talked to Stacey Higginbotham about how smart homes and businesses will disrupt industries and usher in a new era of efficiency, security, and creativity. (more…)

In an essay published on Medium, SmartThings CEO Alex Hawkinson describes what happens when we breathe life into inanimate objects, and the lifeless things around us finally wake up.

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. (more…)

SmartThings CEO Alex Hawkinson joined Senator Richard Blumenthal, FTC Commissioner Maureen K. Ohlhausen, and a host of other entrepreneurs at the Washington Post's “All Things Connected” forum this morning in Washington, DC. (more…)

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..." (more…)