Having introduced its payment system Samsung Pay, now the company is interested home automation with the Internet of thing, what Apple has been doing for a few years with HomeKit.
Samsung bought the startup Perch , who for some time had circulated on the Google Play Store application that can turn any Android device with 4.0 or later operating system, in a home-monitoring tool. The application turned a smartphone into a video camera to be activated at a distance to watch and record everything that was happening.
They also managed to switch on the lights or activate remote appliances and it was even possible to chat, perhaps from work, with people who remained at home
The company has good experience in the technology needed to give the devices a remote management and Samsung probably will integrate the appliances it produces, including refrigerators, washing machines and so on. Samsung has already started to produce the alternative to HomeKit, calling SmartThings but with Perch things will advance more quickly. The app has already been removed from the Store and Perch said that by February 17 the service will stop working. The first fruits of this acquisition will be seen already in a short time. The companies together are interested in producing the next generation of IoT products.
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