Thursday, September 3, 2015

SmartThings’ new hub uses Samsung cameras to monitor your home

SmartThings, the open-platform smart home company that sold itself to Samsung a year ago, is rolling out its first new product line since it was acquired by the Korean electronics giant.

The new SmartThings "smart hub," a router-like device that supports various wireless protocols and powers a series of sensors around the house, has a new design and is equipped with a more powerful processor to support video monitoring.

That means that SmartThings users can connect a home monitoring camera, either a D-Link camera or a Samsung-made one (natch), to the the new hub and monitor the live video feed from the SmartThings mobile app. While the app will serve a continuous live-stream of video, video isn't sent through SmartThings's servers, the...

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