The Smart Home of the Future
As we continue to expand the many ways you can use SmartThings today, we wanted to offer you a glimpse into the SmartThings home of tomorrow. Here are just a few of the exciting things we’re working on delivering in the near future.
Get ready to experience life like never before.
What Happens in a Smart Home?
There’s a lot of talk about how smart homes and the Internet of Things are the wave of the future. But here are just a few of the many things that happen in homes with SmartThings… today.
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[VIDEO] Hello, Smart Home: Craig
Welcome to our latest installment of “Hello, Smart Home,” a video series where we head inside customers’ houses and apartments to see how they’re using SmartThings to secure their homes, gain peace of mind, and complement their preferences and patterns.
Today, we meet Craig, a tech manager who recently married his college sweetheart and moved with her into their first house. Read More
A Future with the Internet of Things
SmartThings co-founder and CTO Jeff Hagins describes how the Internet of Things will add immense value to people’s lives and change how we interact with the physical world around us. Read More
#IoT: Adding Value to People’s Lives
Speaking to a crowd at TEDxSF’s Connected Reality event last week, SmartThings’ CTO Jeff Hagins explains how the Internet of Things is more than just a geeky plot to introduce additional software to the world, but rather something that is going to add real, meaningful value to people’s lives.
A Beginner’s Guide to the Internet of Things
A #loT lot of people are talking about the Internet of Things. But you’re not one of them, ’cause you don’t understand it. That’s because one of the biggest issues facing the Internet of Things is explaining what the Internet of Things is.
What We Believe In
In the near future, it will be possible to communicate with nearly every device in your home. More importantly, the value to be derived from communicating with these previously dumb, lifeless things will far outweigh the investment necessary to learn their language. These things will be able to capture data, communicate vital information to us that we wouldn’t otherwise know, and perform actions when different events occur. And when enough of these devices are connected to the Internet, you will be able to choreograph them to work together based on your specific needs. While many people have labeled this forthcoming revolution the “Internet of Things,” a more accurate description is the “Programmable World.” Read More
Transhumanism
This pretty thought-provoking video comes courtesy of the British Institute of Posthuman Studies. In it, the writers explore the crossroads of philosophy and technology and beg the question: What would happen if we fundamentally alter our intellectual, physical, and psychological capabilities, and is the idea of developing super-human intelligence a good or a bad thing?
While this doesn’t necessarily mirror what we believe in as a company (read: we do not want to implant chips in anyone’s brain… except for maybe Pugstopher), there are a lot of interesting tie-ins to the #IoT movement–specifically from about minute 4:20 forward.
We’re curious: Does this excite you? Terrify you? Make you want to dust off your Aldus Huxley collection? Let us know what you think in the comments section.