Kurt L Keville wrote: > Figured I would throw this on HH, now that CES is making a household > word out of household automation... > http://www.techienews.co.uk/974430/samsung-pitch-smart-home-lgs-homechat-ces-2014/
Thanks Kurt. Yeah, seems both Samsung and LG are each attempting to create their own walled gardens with proprietary home automation systems. Given that they each are diverse manufacturers of everything from washing machines to TVs, they have a chance of pulling it off. Will consumers know that they are getting locked-in to a limited ecosystem? Will they care? To be rolled out first for Samsung range of products, the Smart Home will be extended to other non-Samsung appliances through Home software protocol (SHP). To ensure that there is connectivity between Samsung gadgets and third party appliances, Samsung has already formed a Smart Home Steering Committee to align various Samsung units around the smart home idea. So it sounds like Samsung will at least try and bring other manufacturer's into their ecosystem. LG's big "innovation" is that you send text messages - literally SMS - to your appliances to control them. Fantastically universal, if it were not that the world is starting to move away from using SMS. -Tom _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list Hardwarehacking@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
