[HH] home automation at CES

[Tom Metro]

Kurt L Keville wrote:
> Figured I would throw this on HH, now that CES is making a household
> word out of household automation...
> http://www.techienews.co.uk/974430/samsung-pitch-smart-home-lgs-homechat-ces-2014/

Thanks Kurt.

Yeah, seems both Samsung and LG are each attempting to create their own
walled gardens with proprietary home automation systems. Given that they
each are diverse manufacturers of everything from washing machines to
TVs, they have a chance of pulling it off.

Will consumers know that they are getting locked-in to a limited
ecosystem? Will they care?


  To be rolled out first for Samsung range of products, the Smart Home
  will be extended to other non-Samsung appliances through Home software
  protocol (SHP). To ensure that there is connectivity between Samsung
  gadgets and third party appliances, Samsung has already formed a Smart
  Home Steering Committee to align various Samsung units around the
  smart home idea.

So it sounds like Samsung will at least try and bring other
manufacturer's into their ecosystem.

LG's big "innovation" is that you send text messages - literally SMS -
to your appliances to control them. Fantastically universal, if it were
not that the world is starting to move away from using SMS.

 -Tom