Already turn on the vacuum cleaner
Do you have a phone or other Samsung devices? Then you are undoubtedly familiar with the SmartThings app, which allows you to control all kinds of household appliances via your telephone. This will soon also be possible from the screen of your car, if it is a modern Hyundai or Kia.
Hyundai and Kia will collaborate with Samsung, also South Korea. The deal revolves around Samsung’s SmartThings app, or Samsung’s ‘internet-of-things platform’. The app is similar to Google Home and serves as one central platform to control all kinds of household appliances, preferably Samsung devices themselves. Hyundai and Kia will soon also offer a variant of SmartThings for the infotainment system of cars. It is of course not the intention for drivers to dig around in it while driving, but that is not necessary. The idea is that users set different ‘modes’ in advance, with which you can activate all kinds of functions with one tap. The parties involved themselves give the example of a ‘Home Mode’, with which you can, for example, switch on the air conditioning or heating at home, as well as the lighting, with one tap on the car screen. Anyone who has forgotten to leave everything tidy when driving away can use an ‘Away Mode’ to switch off all the lights from the car, but also let the robot vacuum cleaner get started, for example.
It appears that SmartThings in Hyundai and Kia cars will only work in Korea for now, but there is already talk of integration into other markets. So be patient.
Samsung Motors
The gigantic Samsung is no stranger to the car world, because it once owned a real car manufacturer with Samsung Motors. Samsung Motors later became Renault Samsung Motors and is now called Renault Korea Motors. Samsung only has a minority stake in this company, which offers locally produced Renaults with a Samsung emblem.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl