Samsung SmartThings
Samsung SmartThings is a Home Platforms & Hubs company founded in 2012 and based in Mountain View, United States.
SmartThings was founded in 2012 by Alex Hawkinson and a team of co-founders after Hawkinson's home suffered extensive water damage from burst pipes, inspiring an accessible platform for monitoring and automating the home. Samsung acquired SmartThings in August 2014 for a reported $200 million, and the unit now operates as a Samsung subsidiary headquartered in Mountain View, California, with deep ties to Samsung's home base in Suwon, South Korea; it is owned by Samsung and is not an independent company. SmartThings is one of the most widely supported cross-brand smart-home platforms, with an app and cloud that connect lights, locks, sensors, cameras, TVs, and appliances from many vendors, and it became the first platform to support Matter cameras and Matter 1.5 as the standard expanded device coverage.
As Samsung's smart-home platform, it is one of the few truly cross-brand ecosystems with hundreds of millions of potential endpoints across Samsung TVs and appliances, and a leading early adopter of new Matter capabilities.
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