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    Samsung aims to improve smart home experience through Ambient Sensing

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    Last updated: January 29th, 2025 at 13:46 UTC+01:00

    One of the advantages of buying Samsung's products is its vast ecosystem and the integration between mobile devices and home appliances via SmartThings. The company is planning to make its smart home system even smarter by using sensors inside its TVs and appliances.

    It will all come together through a system called Ambient Sensing.

    SmartThings' Ambient Sensing feature can make your smart home even smarter

    Samsung SmartThings Ambient Sensing

    Samsung said that it aims to use sensors (light, motion, and sound) inside its devices, such as ACs, TVs, and refrigerators, to understand what you are doing or to get an accurate picture of your home. Using that data, it wants its devices to automatically adapt to your needs proactively. This mechanism is called Ambient Sensing.

    For example, if it detects that you are working out or sleeping, it can adjust the air conditioner's fan speed and temperature accordingly. Similarly, if you have been sitting or working from your desk for too long, it can detect that and suggest you take a break and stretch your body.

    If the sensors inside your appliances detect your pet jumping on the couch, it can turn on the air purifier to reduce allergens from the air.

    SmartThigns will soon get Generative AI technology. Using it, you could take pictures of your home's interiors, and those interiors will be replicated in the SmartThings app's 2D/3D map view of your home. Moreover, SmartThings can detect your presence in certain areas of your home and turn on/off ACs or lights.

    The South Korean firm plans to bring these technologies in 2025 and 2026.

    Will your presence data be safe with SmartThings?

    If you are worried about Samsung's devices keeping an eye on all your moves and logging all the data, Samsung says it will be stored locally on your network in the SmartThings Hub and not sent to its servers. So, the company's technology will be more secure than some competing systems.

    A few days ago, it announced the Knox Matrix blockchain-based technology to keep all the appliances on the network safe from attackers or unwanted parties.

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