Cars are getting smarter. Companies like AMD are already working with some manufacturers to give them greater potential in terms of smart features, and now Samsung and Hyundai have also teamed up to make smart cars go further in terms of being connected to the home.
The most visible result of this connection will be that it will be possible to control some of the characteristics of the Kia and Hyundai cars of this type, and you will be able to communicate with the home for, for example, activating the electrodomestic when the user is in the right position. House.
Communication will take place via SmartThings, Samsung’s platform for automating smart devices and which is present on all of its mobile phones and tablets. Therefore, it is very likely that the Samsung SmartThings Station comes into play in this device management. On the other hand, the Korean company also announced a collaboration with Tesla.
Car and home, connected
The two companies will work together to develop cross-functional functions between car and home, which can be very useful in homes where home automation is heavily present. Hyundai is also working with Samsung sub-brand Harman to launch a feature enabling hardware and software updates in vehicles.
Among the functions available to control the car you will find the possibility of turning the car on or off remotely, controlling the smart climate control, opening and closing the windows or checking the car’s charge level, among others. On the other hand, from the car you can also control household appliances to, for example, turn on the heating just before arriving home.
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In addition, if you have an integrated charging service at home, it will be possible to see how much each connected device consumes, as well as see the car’s charge level, and even adapt the charging power to the moment. where it is the cheapest. taking into account factors such as the price of electricity per hour.
The synergies with Tesla electric cars will be different, since they will integrate the brand’s applications into SmartThings, in order to be able to control Elon Musk brand devices, such as Powerwall home battery, solar inverter or Wall Connector charging solutions. All these devices are also visible in the Samsung application, as well as the alerts they send to the mobile phone, since they can inform the user of different events.
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