Samsung has announced SmartThings Edge, which isn’t necessarily a new product, but a backend for all of your interconnected SmartThings gizmos and gadgets.
It’s technically a new hub architecture, and Samsung says it should make all of your home automations even faster and easier.
SmartThings Edge
The biggest takeaway from this announcement is that you won’t see anything different on your app or directly with your devices. But going forward, your SmartThings Hub will be handling automation processing on device, instead of relying not he cloud for that processing power.
There’s some big advantages to this, including less latency and more reliability. Even if your internet is getting a little spotty, your automations should still work without a hitch, and they’ll be quicker than they were before. You can also fully run your automations while offline, in case you’re in a complete internet outage or maybe you just specifically don’t have internet at your home.
Additionally, developers can now build device drivers with Lua as part of moving away from the old SmartThings platform, which should speed things up for other devices that you’re trying to automate. Win/win all around.
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