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Stamford, Conn, March 19, 2018: HARMAN International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., focused on connected technologies for automotive, consumer and enterprise markets, recently announced its engineering tie-up with Samsung SmartThings, the industry leader for consumer IoT technology.
This collaboration is between the Samsung SmartThings R&D team and HARMAN Connected Services (HCS), a division of HARMAN International, said a press statement.
To fast-track 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 worldwide by 2020, Samsung is proving it is a leader in this space as the SmartThings platform is currently in over 1 million homes and the SmartThings cloud is connected to over 10 million devices. Together HARMAN and Samsung will continue to accelerate the adoption and solution development across key industry verticals.
In the year since Samsung’s acquisition of HARMAN, the two companies have continuously worked together to create and implement leading-edge technologies for various industries and customers. This new association exemplifies the continuation of a successful relationship between HARMAN and Samsung to revolutionise the IoT and Cloud space — not only for the consumer but also for the enterprise and the automotive OEM.
Through this collaboration HARMAN Connected Services will:
- Assist with the rolling out of the SmartThings app
- 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