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Samsung's SmartThings Launches IoT Open Cloud

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Samsung's smart home venture, SmartThings has announced a new open software and data exchange cloud for the “Internet of Things” (IoT) - SmartThings Open Cloud. The Open Cloud is powered by SAMI, a Data Driven Development platform that Samsung announced last May with simple open APIs and SDKs to send and receive diverse data, regardless of the source. The Open Cloud will support both SmartThings devices and Samsung’s digital appliances and consumer electronics products, said both companies.

According to SmartThings, with the Open Cloud, device makers can bring new products to market more rapidly by focusing on building connected devices without having to build and maintain their own device cloud infrastructure. Open Cloud provides a secure device cloud that accomplishes this by delivering device authentication, connectivity, data sharing and normalization, and security. It also has the ability to aggregate a diverse, wide array of data from third party applications, services and devices that can be accessed for visualization and analysis, opening up new potential for discovery within the developer community, said the company.

Alongside SmartThings Open Cloud, Samsung also unveiled today the ARTIK platform, a family of multi-chip modules for building products used in IoT environments. ARTIK-powered devices will be able to connect directly to Open Cloud using the SDK that will come packaged with all ARTIK modules. 

Alex Hawkinson, Founder and CEO, SmartThings
The Internet of Things ecosystem today is growing steadily, but there are still many barriers that are inhibiting more rapid progress. For example, device makers today have to build cloud infrastructure that makes bringing connected devices to market a very time intensive and expensive endeavor. SmartThings Open Cloud and ARTIK can now greatly accelerate this process. Together with Samsung, we’re excited to deliver these two key technologies to continue driving innovation, openness, and growth at every level of the IoT from components and devices to applications and services.

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