Samsung SmartThings Discover Hits New Milestone With 200 Million Nodes Serving to Discover Misplaced Units – Samsung International Newsroom

The service is rising in recognition because it helps customers to find almost one million of misplaced units on a regular basis

Samsung Electronics introduced that the SmartThings Discover service has grown quickly and is now comprised of greater than 200 million discover nodes working to assist customers find their misplaced units. Discover nodes are units which have been registered on the SmartThings Discover service to assist different Samsung Galaxy customers to find their misplaced units.

 

“We’re proud and excited to see the speedy progress of the SmartThings Discover service. In lower than two years, 200 million units have opted in to assist fellow Samsung Galaxy customers discover their misplaced units — making it one of many quickest rising companies at Samsung,” mentioned TM Roh, President and Head of Samsung Electronics’ MX (Cell eXperience) Enterprise. “Shedding a tool will be nerve-racking, however SmartThings Discover makes it simpler to shortly find and get well your system. It’s only one instance of how a linked ecosystem of units creates significant experiences for Samsung Galaxy customers everywhere in the world.”

 

As a quickly rising location service, SmartThings Discover permits Samsung Galaxy customers to shortly find registered Samsung Galaxy units — from smartphones, tablets, watches and earbuds to non-public belongings akin to keys or your pockets which have a Galaxy SmartTag or SmartTag+¹ system hooked up. SmartThings Discover leverages Bluetooth Low Vitality (BLE) and ultra-wideband (UWB) know-how² to find your merchandise. In case your system is outdoors of your telephone’s vary, different close by Samsung Galaxy customers who’ve opted into SmartThings Discover can assist you find it. In case you grant SmartThings Discover permission, SmartThings Discover may also alert customers that they’ve left their system behind.

 

Making certain the safety of delicate data like location information is a prime precedence for Samsung. SmartThings Discover encrypts consumer information and retains it protected by the defense-grade safety platform, Samsung Knox. A tool’s location information is just revealed to different folks with the consumer’s permission and the ID of every consumer’s system adjustments each quarter-hour and is saved anonymously. SmartThings Discover additionally helps customers determine unknown SmartTags that observe them for a sure time period.

 

 

To seek out out extra about SmartThings Discover, go to SmartThings Discover web site.

 

 

About SmartThings:

SmartThings is the premier know-how enabling linked residing and driving the way forward for IoT. Its open platform already helps hundreds of units throughout a whole lot of manufacturers and gives limitless prospects to innovators and builders searching for seamless connectivity in an unlimited IoT ecosystem. The corporate is dedicated to bringing sensible performance and capabilities in all places customers wish to be, whereas enhancing the consumer expertise. There are presently thousands and thousands of individuals in additional than 200 international locations accessing SmartThings know-how each day to create automations and management sides of their sensible houses by way of the SmartThings App and thru a spread of Samsung merchandise akin to telephones, TVs and digital home equipment. SmartThings gives essentially the most versatile quantity of protocols, together with the brand new IoT customary, Matter. Launched in 2012, SmartThings is headquartered in Mountain View, CA and is a founding board member of Connectivity Requirements Alliance, a corporation of a whole lot of corporations creating, sustaining and delivering open, international requirements for the IoT. For extra data, please go to www.smartthings.com.

 

 

¹ SmartTag is on the market for all Samsung Galaxy smartphones, tablets and different units working Android 8 or later.
SmartTag+ is on the market on UWB-equipped units Galaxy S22+ and Extremely, S21+ and Extremely, Note20 Extremely, Z Fold2 and Z Fold3.

² UWB-equipped units solely