Samsung Partners With Hyundai Motor Group To Present a Future Lifestyle Connecting the Smart Home With Connected Cars – Samsung Global Newsroom

Connecting Samsung’s SmartThings platform with Hyundai Motor Group’s linked automobiles will result in growth of options for future existence

▲ Examples of Residence-to-Automobile and Automobile-to Residence providers to be developed

Samsung Electronics at the moment introduced a collaboration with Hyundai Motor Group to broaden its SmartThings platform to assist linked automobiles, together with electrical autos (EVs). The announcement got here after the businesses signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on January 3 to develop options for future existence that totally combine the good house and linked automobiles.

The 2 firms will work collectively for the next-generation good house to attach Samsung’s SmartThings with Hyundai and Kia’s linked automobiles, together with EVs, to develop the “Residence-to-Automobile” and “Automobile-to-Residence” providers in addition to an built-in house power administration service.

The Residence-to-Automobile and Automobile-to-Residence providers join the good house with in-vehicle infotainment methods, permitting for distant management in each instructions. By the SmartThings platform, customers will have the ability to carry out quite a lot of actions pertaining to their automobiles whereas at house — beginning them, controlling good air con, opening and shutting home windows and checking their charging standing. And from automobiles, the management of house home equipment corresponding to TVs, air conditioners and EV chargers may even be attainable.

“This collaboration will allow communication from Residence-to-Automobile and built-in house power administration providers which might be optimized for future existence,” stated Chanwoo Park, Govt Vice President at Samsung Electronics. “By connecting the SmartThings platform with autos, we’ll have the ability to considerably improve the shopper expertise in each the house and the automotive.”

Customers will have the ability to alter their environments with SmartThings by concurrently working a number of gadgets — together with autos — by means of routines corresponding to “good morning routine” and “arriving house routine.” For instance, when a Galaxy smartphone’s morning alarm goes off, the curtains will mechanically open, and the lights and tv will activate. When customers are able to exit for work, the person’s automotive will alter itself to a really perfect temperature. Additionally, the smartphone and TV screens will show data such because the EV’s remaining battery and driving vary.

“This is a chance to make the linked automotive’s Automobile-to-Residence and Residence-to-Automobile providers extra handy in varied fields,” stated Haeyoung Kwon, Vice President of Hyundai and Kia’s Infotainment Improvement Middle. “We plan to speed up our know-how growth to constantly make international Hyundai and Kia clients’ journeys significant.”

The built-in house power administration service will permit customers to observe how a lot power is consumed by the linked gadgets of their properties. Vitality data of their EVs and chargers may even be out there, enabling customers to regulate the optimum time for charging their autos. EVs linked to the built-in house power administration service supply the potential of mechanically setting the optimum time for charging by factoring in numerous pricing by time of day,¹ the facility demand response (DR) program,² photovoltaic (PV) and power storage system (ESS) knowledge,³ and time-specific carbon emissions.⁴

▲ Examples of Residence-to-Automobile and Automobile-to Residence providers to be developed

To additional strengthen Automobile-to-Residence providers, Samsung is working intently with HARMAN, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics. HARMAN’s “Prepared Improve” is a digital cockpit package deal product that permits {hardware} and software program upgrades. With Prepared Improve, customers will have the ability to set up SmartThings features to make the most of varied Automobile-to-Residence providers.

¹ Greater charges are utilized relying on the season and time of day.
² Incentives are offered to collaborating households to scale back power consumption in response to the DR sign throughout peak hours, when energy utilization is concentrated.
³ Monitoring {of electrical} power manufacturing/consumption/storage by means of PV/ESS.
⁴ Carbon emissions and reductions are monitored by means of data relating to the quantity of carbon emitted when consuming 1KWh of electrical energy.