Other Technology | April 25, 2024
Almost like the house in The Sims, the Korean company is launching a new experience to organize or plan the connected home.
If Samsung’s Galaxy Ring smart ring is going to be able to connect to the home through Samsung Food, in order to provide food recommendations upon arrival after going for a run, now the tech giant has launched a very interesting novelty: the ability to create a virtual map of the home to locate smart devices.
In an increasingly connected home with speakers, light bulbs, or motion sensors like those from IKEA, it can be quite difficult to locate them as well as manage them, which can generate all sorts of headaches.
Samsung’s solution with SmartThings is a functionality of a 3D map view to place or manage all smart devices. Samsung’s goal is to provide the necessary tool to the user so that they can also adjust the lighting, temperature, air quality, and energy consumption of each room.
The best thing about Samsung’s 3D map is that it takes advantage of Spatial AI on Samsung devices, such as with the Bespoke Jet Bot, which uses LiDAR sensors to measure rooms in the home with great precision, thus generating an accurate and detailed map.
An included filter function allows for more efficient monitoring of connected devices, and by the end of the year, for greater customization, the AI characters showcased at CES 2024 will be introduced. Map View is already available in the SmartThings app for both Android and iOS mobile devices, as well as on Smart TVs and other devices such as the Family Hub refrigerators.
In tests conducted, the update to access Map View is already available on the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, allowing users to use the available options to create the 3D map: with a photo of the floor plan, hand drawing, or organizing rooms and walls with a creation tool.
However, to locate devices on the map, they must be from Samsung or compatible with Matter, the unified protocol adopted by Apple and other manufacturers to enable all devices to ‘understand’ each other.
With the map already designed, it’s very easy to place furniture, plants, or smart devices with a drag-and-drop experience in a well-designed app that works very well.
Samsung offers a new and great experience with SmartThings as announced on its website, making it easier to manage all smart devices in the home. The only drawback is that Matter is not yet widely adopted enough to add all non-Samsung devices.
