Samsung has shown a device called as sleepsense that will help you sleep better at the IFA 2015. The sleepsense is a part of its home automation hub called as SmarTthings that will be able to control various appliances in your home to make it smart.
The SmarTthings hub will cost about 99 usd and it comes with 4 different types of sensor that has to be purchased separately. The SmarTthings will help in saving the electricity by switching off your television, lights and air-condition when you are not present. They work in sync with about 200 different kind of products such as Bose sound system, phones and Philips lighting system. It can also act as security monitoring system which will track and record motion of the individual in your home.
The SmarTthings work with all appliances and devices that comply with the GitHub, an open source protocol that help the internet of things to connect and control various kinds of devices.
“People are beginning to understand the real value and utility smart home technology can provide in their everyday lives”, said Alex Hawkinson, CEO and founder of SmarTthings. Its all part of a vision in which Samsung aims to develop smart homes by 2020.
The said sleepsense acts in collaboration with the smarthings, it is a small saucer kind of device that has to be place under your pillow. It will switch off the lights and television when it senses that you are sleeping and it also asks the coffee machine to prepare coffee when it detects that you are about to complete your sleep cycle in the morning. How cool is that?
