New enterprise settlement entails shut technical cooperation between organizations to ship enhanced experiences at house and of their autos
Users will have the ability to join their Hyundai Motor and Kia cars to the Samsung SmartThings IoT platform and expertise a wide selection of life-improving performance
▲ (From left) Chang Song, President and Head of Hyundai Motor Group Advanced Vehicle Platform (AVP) Division; Paul (Kyungwhoon) Cheun, President, CTO of DX Division at Samsung Electronics and Head of Samsung Research
Samsung Electronics at present introduced the signing of a strategic expertise partnership settlement with Hyundai Motor and Kia. The firms’ shared objective is to raise customers’ connectivity experiences by totally integrating the SmartThings IoT platform with Hyundai and Kia’s software-defined autos (SDVs).
The signing ceremony was held at Samsung Electronics’ Seoul R&D Campus, with Samsung’s members together with Paul (Kyungwhoon) Cheun, President, CTO of Device eXperience (DX) Division and Head of Samsung Research; Seungbeom Choi, Executive Vice President and Head of Device Platform Center; and Chanwoo Park, Executive Vice President and Head of IoT R&D Team. Participants from Hyundai and Kia included Chang Song, President and Head of Hyundai Motor Group Advanced Vehicle Platform (AVP) Division and Haeyoung Kwon, Vice President and Head of Hyundai Motor Group Infotainment Development Center.
Through this settlement, Samsung will combine SmartThings with Hyundai and Kia’s next-generation infotainment system to supply a differentiated expertise. First, they’ll introduce the worldwide location resolution operate for autos and sensible keys primarily based on the SmartThings Find platform, which is a crowdsourced community of lots of of hundreds of thousands of Samsung Galaxy gadgets that use the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) expertise to report their location. Through the SmartThings Find service, customers can find autos utilizing close by Galaxy smartphones — even with out a 4G or 5G mobile community connection — which means drivers can extra simply monitor down their vehicles within the occasion of them being misplaced or stolen.
Additionally, drivers can use their Galaxy’s Quick Panel to manage air con and test their remaining vary from their system. Vehicles can be added to the linked SmartThings ecosystem, permitting customers to return to a house with optimized circumstances by controlling their Samsung air conditioners, air purifiers or different linked gadgets whereas driving house.
As a part of the settlement, Samsung may even proceed collaborating with Hyundai and Kia to supply numerous AI-based providers tailor-made to buyer existence and preferences. The firms will increase using SmartThings to incorporate in-vehicle well being monitoring by way of cameras and Galaxy gadgets, pet care options that optimize car environments for pets, in addition to integration with sensible condominium options and SDVs.
“Our goal is to enrich Hyundai Motor and Kia customers’ mobility experience by offering personalized services that extend beyond transportation, seamlessly integrating vehicles with smartphones,” stated Chang Song, President and Head of Hyundai Motor Group Advanced Vehicle Platform (AVP) Division.
“Through our collaboration with Hyundai and Kia, customers will experience the convenience of SmartThings not only at home but also in their vehicles, transcending space,” stated Paul (Kyungwhoon) Cheun, President, CTO of DX Division at Samsung Electronics and Head of Samsung Research. “We will continue to expand the SmartThings ecosystem, offering new lifestyles and value to even more customers.”
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