Latin America. Harman announced its engineering partnership with Samsung SmartThings, a collaboration between the Samsung SmartThings R&D team and Harman Connected Services (HCS).
To accelerate the growth of the SmartThings ecosystem, a global team of HCS engineers will help develop and support the SmartThings application and device development. With Gartner, Inc. predicting that 20.4 billion connected devices will be used by 2020, Samsung is proving to be a leader in this space as the SmartThings platform is currently in more than 1 million homes and the SmartThings cloud is connected to more than 10 million devices. tags.
Together Harman and Samsung will continue to accelerate the adoption and development of solutions in key industry verticals.
In the year since Samsung's acquisition of Harman, the two companies have worked together to create and implement cutting-edge technologies for various industries and customers. This new partnership exemplifies the continuation of a successful relationship between Harman and Samsung to revolutionize the IoT and cloud space, not only for the consumer, but also for the automotive enterprise and OEM.
Through this collaboration, Harman Connected Services will:
Help with smartthings app deployment
Integrate third-party sensors into the SmartThings ecosystem
Work on feature development for SmartThings Cloud
Collaborate to create future roadmap features for hub, core, and embedded components
