(iTers News) -Samsung Electronics is better poised to address fast-growing Internet of Things market. The world’s most prestigious brand in memory chips, TVs, and smart phones has lined up the world’s broadest range of products from CPUs to memory chips to LCD and OLED displays to secondary batteries to networking technologies to TVs to smart phones to wearable smart watches to home appliances.

Built with all these fundamental key building block technologies, all of Samsung’s digital devices and home appliances are also energy-efficient, small, and more importantly are carrying connectivity features.

One last crucial piece, which Samsung works hard on is a universal, secure, and interoperable open source IoT platform that not only can make all these connected devices of Samsung brand talk with each other its own IoT ecosystem, but also other brand name devices like LG’s and Sony’s as well as any of service providers’ IoT ecosystems.

At a keynote speech held on Jan 7 at CES show, Dr. WP, Hong WP, president of Samsung SDS, said, “The IoT ecosystem is emerging, and Samsung is leading the charge, because not many companies are having device portfolio that is so cutting-edge and cover a whole spectrum of consumer electronics from the very components that power our digital world to networking to mobile devices to household appliance and much more. This gives a head-start when it comes to IoT success. Samsung’s IoT strategy rests on three pillars; devices, platforms and security.

According to him, Samsung is working on a truly open source IoT platform IoTivity, which is a truly open connectivity framework for IoT.  To rally other device makers and service providers behind the platform, Samsung has created Open Interconnect Consortium, or OIC. CISCO, Intel, GE are among members of the OIC, just to name three.

Samsung President, W.P. Hong takes the stage at CES 2016 to deliver a keynote address on the Internet of Real Things, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, in Las Vegas. Hong emphasized how current IoT solutions are delivering in health care, automotive, financial services sectors thanks to a commitment to security and an open ecosystem(Isaac Brekken/AP Images for Samsung)

Samsung President, W.P. Hong takes the stage at CES 2016 to deliver a keynote address on the Internet of Real Things, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, in Las Vegas. Hong emphasized how current IoT solutions are delivering in health care, automotive, financial services sectors thanks to a commitment to security and an open ecosystem(Isaac Brekken/AP Images for Samsung)



“Across the board , we are working with top industry partners GE Cisco, Intel. Our aim is to create truly open connectivity frame work platform for the IoT we call it IoTVity It is open source approach for connectivity we are rolling out across a full spectrum of IoT applications we are making it really easy to develop and certify their services, software and devices, because Samsung IoT has to be a framework truly available for development. The Internet of Things must not get trapped inside of one walled garden of one company‘s ecosystem. That is why Samsung’s IoT platform is fully open,” he stressed.

Samsung SDS is a system integrator subsidiary of Samsung Electronics.

To highlight how deep and wide its product portfolio is, he called attention to a couple of key technology building blocks in Samsung IoT ecosystem.

A case in point is Samsung Electronics’ recently released bio-processor. Coming built with bio-sensors and CPU processor core, it is an ultratiny SoC solution that is specifically designed to power a wide variety of healthcare and fitness wearable devices, measuring and monitoring human heart rate, body fats, and ECG, or electrocardiography.

Stripe-shaped secondary battery is another example. Dubbed as Stripe Battery, the Li-ion secondary battery is an extremely small, bendable stripe-shaped battery just 3.7mm thin –thin and slim enough to befit into any ultra-tiny form factor IoT devices like head band and necklaces.

The battery’ charging power is stunningly fast enough to charge to 50% in less than 15 minutes.

Samsung’s IoT technology prowess doesn’t stop there.

The company has already its own indigenous smart home platform called SmartThings on hand, a brainchild of its wholly owned U.S.-based smart home system integrator SmartThings Inc.

The platform ecosystem has been rapidly growing to have one hundreds of devices certified.

More importantly, 20,000 developers are working on it to create their own applications using SmartThings open API, or application program interface. Any device manufacturers can connect to the SmartThings ecosystem using the API.

In addition, Samsung is working on Smart Home Could API, the industry’s first open platform that makes it possible to integrate any of Samsung’s IoT –ready household appliances into any of other IoT ecosystems.

“But, the IoT ecosystem must go deeper, because Samsung and our partners are creating services to provide that end-to-end solution for our customers. We believe in open partnership. Samsung’s devices are ready to talk with any platform of your choice not least thanks to our smart home cloud API for home appliances which is industry first. Any service providers can incorporate Samsung devices in their IoT ecosystem” stressed Dr. Hong.

Touching on the data and network security issue, he said that Samsung is now fine-tuning Samsung’s Knox, mobile security technology, as one overwhelming security solution for its IoT ecosystem.

Industry leaders in tech, financial services, automotive industries, Fabrice Hudry, VP SDI America, Samsung, left, Dr. Jeffrey Evenson, SVP and Chief Strategy Officer, Corning, Terry Myerson, EVP, Windows and Devices Group, Microsoft, Dr. WP Hong, President of Samsung SDS, Lance Braunstein, Global Head on Investment Banking Technology, Goldman Sachs, Steven Althaus, SVP, Brand Management, BMW, Leong Teng Wui, Chief Development Officer, Ascott come together in commitment to open IoT platform and security for consumers during a Samsung keynote address at CES 2016 Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, in Las Vegas. (Isaac Brekken/AP Images for Samsung)

Industry leaders in tech, financial services, automotive industries, Fabrice Hudry, VP SDI America, Samsung, left, Dr. Jeffrey Evenson, SVP and Chief Strategy Officer, Corning, Terry Myerson, EVP, Windows and Devices Group, Microsoft, Dr. WP Hong, President of Samsung SDS, Lance Braunstein, Global Head on Investment Banking Technology, Goldman Sachs, Steven Althaus, SVP, Brand Management, BMW, Leong Teng Wui, Chief Development Officer, Ascott come together in commitment to open IoT platform and security for consumers during a Samsung keynote address at CES 2016 Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, in Las Vegas. (Isaac Brekken/AP Images for Samsung)



 
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