Samsung introduced a new service for "smart home"

Samsung Electronics has introduced a new service Samsung Smart Home, which allows you to combine a home network smart TVs, smart phones, and digital household appliances and control them with a single integrated platform.

Samsung Smart Home will be unveiled at CES 2014 in Las Vegas and will be available to users in the first half of 2014. Samsung also plans to actively cooperate with its partners to increase the number of devices supporting the service.

The service Samsung Smart Home user can control all appliances in the house with a single application server and integrated platform combining the home network devices from refrigerators and washing machines to televisions, cameras, smartphones and handheld devices, such as, Samsung GALAXY Gear.

Three main functions Samsung Smart Home: Managing Devices (Device Control), watching the house (Home View) and smart user service (Smart Customer Service), - allow you to easily connect to devices anytime and anywhere.

Device management techniques will help to change the settings regardless of whether the user at home or abroad. You can enable and disable the air conditioning or lighting a simple click on the application icon Smart Home on mobile devices, combined with the home appliances in a network.

And also provides an opportunity to voice control. Suffice to say a command to the mobile device, the controller is running, for example, say "leave home" for Samsung GALAXY Gear, to turn off the lights in the house, or "good night" for the remote control for the TV to shut down. 

The surveillance function allows you to display the current image with a smartphone built in appliances cameras in the house. Smart service will send a reminder to check the equipment and will seek servicing.

Samsung Smart Home developers have focused primarily on the smart TV, smart phones and home appliances. In the future, increase the number of support services work with products released by Samsung and other manufacturers.

Samsung has also developed a Smart Home software protocol (SHP), to be able to connect equipment issued by other companies. In collaboration with partners, the company plans to create a unique ecosystem for connecting equipment in the house.

The company believes that in the future Smart Home service will allow to monitor energy consumption, safety, health and environmental performance of users with new applications developed in conjunction with partner companies for a new market segment with high commercial potential.