“Samsung Home Hub brings seamless connectivity to the smart home and makes users’ lives easier by understanding their preferences and setting their home devices and smart appliances up accordingly,” said Hyesoon Yang, Executive Vice President and Head of Customer Experience at the Digital Appliances Business of Samsung Electronics. “The connectivity of our devices and the Samsung Home Hub’s intuitive interface allow everyone in the home to get through their to-do list quickly.”

Connecting a Broader Range of Devices

With Samsung Home Hub connecting to smart home appliances in every corner of the home, you can now manage your daily routine, handle chores and take care of your house, all on a single device. As a home controller, it gives you a sweeping view of your entire connected home and allows you to stay on top of everything seamlessly.

From launch, Samsung Home Hub will be able to connect to every product within the SmartThings ecosystem, including your Samsung smart appliances. Soon, you will also have direct connectivity to other devices in your smart home system, such as your lights and door lock system.

Customized Experiences With AI and SmartThings

For the first time ever, a broad array of customized, AI-based SmartThings services have been united and can be controlled from one dedicated device with the Samsung Home Hub. These SmartThings services fall under the categories of Cooking, Clothing Care, Pet, Air, Energy and Home Care Wizard.

To make dinner time easier, SmartThings Cooking allows you to conveniently search for, plan, purchase and prep weekly meals with Family Hub.  When it’s time to do the laundry, SmartThings Clothing Care connects to appliances like the Bespoke Washer and Dryer and the Bespoke AirDresser and provides customized care options based on your garments’ material types, your usage patterns and the current season. What’s more, SmartThings Pet allows you to check in on your pet with the smart camera on the Bespoke Jet Bot AI+ and adjust settings on appliances like the air conditioner to make the environment more comfortable for your pet.

Meanwhile, SmartThings Air can provide automatic dehumidification and connect with air conditioners and air purifiers to manage the air quality in your home according to your preferences. To help you save on energy costs, SmartThings Energy¹ on the Samsung Home Hub analyzes your usage patterns² and uses its AI-equipped power saving mode to help reduce your energy bills. And to stay on top of it all, SmartThings Home Care Wizard monitors all of your smart appliances, sends you notifications when parts need to be replaced and offers guidance if something goes wrong.

Elevated Usability With Bixby

Samsung Home Hub is an exclusive 8.4-inch tablet that can be operated from its dock or used on the go around the home. For voice control, the Samsung Home Hub has two microphones and two speakers to allow you to easily hear notifications and use Bixby voice commands. If you have a question, just ask Bixby. Featuring high-performance microphones, the Samsung Home Hub can pick up verbal commands spoken from the broader room when docked.

In recognition of its innovativeness, Samsung Home Hub received a CES Innovation Award from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) ahead of CES 2022.

Samsung Home Hub will be available in Korea in March, and globally after that.

For more information about the Samsung Home Hub, please visit Samsung.com

¹ Available in Korea, the UK and the US

² Users can track and monitor energy consumption data with smart meters, through power suppliers and energy monitoring providers such KEPCO (Korea), DCC (UK), and Copper Labs and Eyedro (US)

Samsung’s Bespoke Home vision offers consumers a home that is beautifully designed, full of flexible features, seamlessly connected and inspired by its user. In this third installment of ‘People Behind Bespoke’, Chanwoo Park, Head of Home IoT Business at Samsung Electronics, explains how the Bespoke Home harnesses connectivity between smart devices to enrich and streamline everyday home experiences.

In the Bespoke Home, your appliances come together to create a personalized home experience that is much more than the sum of its parts. Through the connectivity provided by Samsung Electronics’ innovative technologies, your appliances work together to create synergies that maximize convenience and bring something special to even the most basic of everyday routines.

Connected Solutions for a Changing World

Within the connected ecosystem of the Bespoke Home, artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity come together to completely transform the home experience. While AI is leveraged to study usage patterns and give better recommendations, IoT allows your appliances to seamlessly interconnect within your home.

What’s more, with the SmartThings app, a platform that supports thousands of devices across hundreds of brands, the ability to control the way it works is placed directly into the palm of your hand.

In practice, this means your washing machine will remember your favorite cycle and have it ready to go on laundry day. Once you choose what you want to make for dinner, your smart oven will receive the recipe and set itself to the right temperature. Your robot vacuum is even able to recognize your pet, and will send you a video so that you can keep an eye on them even when you’re away from home.

One Step Closer to Creating a Net Zero Home

With the recent rise of energy prices and the growing necessity for greener smart home solutions, Samsung envisaged SmartThings Energy as a way to empower users to be able to control the way energy is used throughout their homes and make smarter, greener decisions at home.

Thanks to the extensive growth of its partnership network, SmartThings Energy is growing into a smart energy management solution able to encompass the energy consumption of every appliance in a home, and even integrates such newer, renewable energy sources as solar.

In the UK, SmartThings Energy is now integrated with nearly 13 million Smart Meters, covering almost half of all UK homes. The service increases household energy IQ by harnessing the power of a smart home platform that analyzes user behavior and empowers users to take action and make a change – whether that change be switching to a new energy provider or garnering more awareness of their carbon footprint through monitoring.

A Whole New Food Prep Routine

Building a weekly meal plan that is varied and contains meals that are both tasty and nutritious can be a big task – and that’s before you actually start looking at what you actually have the ingredients to make.

SmartThings Cooking curates your entire food preparation experience by building weekly meal plans based on your specific tastes, dietary needs and the ingredients you have on-hand. Once your meals are planned out, SmartThings Cooking connects to various food and grocery retailers to order any ingredients you might be missing. When it comes time to cook, SmartThings ensures your range is preheated to the right temperature for the meal you’re preparing.

SmartThings Cooking also puts an end to fumbling for recipes and flipping between apps by bringing all the necessary searching, planning, purchasing and preparation together in one single place. With SmartThings, you can get all your meal planning done from wherever you are on your smartphone – or plan your meals right on the screen of your smart fridge – secure in the knowledge that your planning will be shared and easily accessible across your devices.

Connectivity for Pet Care

In addition to making your life more comfortable, connectivity in the Bespoke Home is now capable of improving the life of your furry friends, too. With its ability to monitor pets and connect to other smart devices, Samsung’s Bespoke Jet Bot AI+ and SmartThings Pet allow you to see what your pets are doing in real-time and make the environment more comfortable for them from wherever you are.

While going about its cleaning duties, your Bespoke Jet Bot AI+ recognizes when your pet comes into view, starts recording and sends the videos straight to your phone. After receiving these real-time updates, you can then use SmartThings Pet on your phone to adjust the settings on your smart air conditioner, air purifier and lights back home to make sure your pet is as comfortable as possible while you’re away.

Give Your Clothes the Care They Deserve

The clothes we wear every day are important mainstays of our lives, but maintaining sensitive and specialty items can prove complicated, especially given that properly cleansing our garments has become particularly important in the current climate.

SmartThings Clothing Care recommends optimal cycles for the items you’re washing based on material type, your usage patterns, the current season and more. A comprehensive smart wardrobe management system, SmartThings Clothing Care also monitors detergent levels, and can even order more detergent from online retailers when you’re running low.

With SmartThings, your Bespoke AirDresser and smart washer communicate with one another to share information and deliver personalized cycles and settings. Auto Cycle Link then matches the settings on your dryer to your wash settings to ensure your clothes are getting the consistent treatment that is just right for their garment type.

Committed to a Sustainable Bespoke Home Experience

With Bespoke Home, Samsung is dedicating itself to bringing an end to the ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach. We have committed to making all of our current and future products IoT-ready in order to realize our vision for a more connected world.

The deep customizability we are delivering with Bespoke Home is present at many different levels of the products that make up the portfolio – from the range of Bespoke colors the products come in to the ways you can tailor their usability to realize your own connected home vision. The Bespoke Home works with you on how you like to cook, how you like the temperature and air in your home and how you like to care for your clothes. When your preferences shift, your Bespoke Home is right there with you, happy to adjust to ensure you are enjoying the highest possible levels of comfort and convenience.

However, in today’s world, convenience alone is no longer enough – our appliances must also find ways to contribute to a more sustainable future. To this end, Samsung introduced SmartThings Energy with the direct purpose of allowing you to monitor your energy information in real-time in order to better manage how energy is being used in your home. In addition to supporting most Samsung appliances, SmartThings Energy is being expanded to a range of other devices and solutions to allow you to make smarter, more environmentally conscious decisions across every aspect of your home and lifestyle.

The Bespoke AirDresser grows to understand your lifestyle, with its powerful AI functions working to make your day-to-day easier so that you can spend your time as you see fit. And for a comprehensive clean, the Bespoke AirDresser features a dual care system that removes a range of harmful substances from your clothing. It reduces 99.9% of common bacteria and viruses, kills 100% of dust mites¹ and removes 99% of odors from clothes.² Finally, it completely removes any residue of the gases used during the cleaning process by the device itself.

The Bespoke AirDresser’s attractive front panel also makes your AirDresser a sleek, minimalistic addition to your home. The Bespoke AirDresser is available in six different colors,³ three different kinds of materials and two different sizes⁴ to ensure that you get the AirDresser that is a perfect fit for your home.

Your Smart Clothing Care Assistant

After arriving home from work, simply hang your clothes in the Bespoke AirDresser and let the AirDresser do the rest. The AI Control feature helps you save time by showing you recommended settings based on your lifestyle – all you have to do is select the course displayed right on top.

The AI Pattern feature personalizes the controls displayed on your AirDresser’s front panel based on your habits, including frequently used cycles and settings, and prominently displays your commonly-used settings for easy access.

Attentive Care for Sensitive Items

When it comes to items that require specialty maintenance, the Bespoke AirDresser is equipped to give your garments the precise care they need.

Heading to the dry cleaners after a long day can be very tiresome. Fortunately, the Bespoke AirDresser is there to lighten your load and save you the time and trouble of finding a reliable dry cleaner to care for your sensitive items. Custom Cycle, a feature accessible through the SmartThings application, recommends tailored care routines based on your chosen fabric and garment type. The Bespoke AirDresser provides customized care for all types of sensitive garments with just a few taps and makes your special items last longer.

Free Up Your Schedule

Reduce the time you spend on housekeeping, and optimize your time management with the Auto Cycle Link and AI Dry features. When taking care of garments made of sensitive materials that may be too delicate for a tumble dryer, you can use the Bespoke AirDresser for worry-free drying after a wash.

The Auto Cycle Link feature recommends the most appropriate drying course once a cleaning cycle ends. Through its connection to your Samsung smart washer, it quickly and intelligently identifies the appropriate drying cycle on your AirDresser according to the wash cycle settings.

The Bespoke AirDresser’s AI Dry technology uses a humidity sensor on the inside of the door to enable faster drying too. By continually monitoring the humidity of the clothes in the drum, it intelligently reduces drying time to ensure your laundry is always dried thoroughly in the shortest possible time while not sustaining any damage.

¹ As witnessed by Intertek. 1) Eliminates 99.9% of viruses, including Influenza B, Norovirus (Murine Norovirus), Rhinovirus (Human Rhinovirus), Hepatitis A (Human hepatitis A), Rotavirus (Porcine Rotavirus) and enterovirus (Porcine enterovirus). 2) Eliminates 99.9% of bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, E. coli, MRSA, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Legionella pneumophilia, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, klebsiella pneumoniae, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, and Enterococcus faecalis. 3) kills 100% of house dust mites.

Also based on testing by Korea University, College of Pharmacy. Eliminates 99.9% of viruses, including Influenza A, Coronavirus (Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus [PEDV]), Adenovirus (Infectious canine hepatitis), and Herpes (Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis).

² Removes 99% of odor causing gases (Iso-Valeric acid: sweat, 4-Ethenyl pyridine: tobacco, Valeraldehyde: roasting meat, and Tetrachloroethylene: dry cleaning) witnessed by intertek using a Normal course. 4) 99% of harmful substances (Perchloroethylene) witnessed by Intertek using a Normal course.

³ Crystal Mirror, Glam White, Glam Pink, Satin Beige, Cotta White and Cotta Charcoal (Color and material options may differ by country.)

⁴ 18-inch and 24-inch

With upgraded smart features for ultimate convenience, Samsung’s Bespoke AirDresser refreshes clothing by removing dust, neutralizing 99% of odors,¹ eliminating germs, and smoothing out wrinkles. As health and wellness routines become ever-more important for consumers around the world, the Bespoke AirDresser offers a beautiful, sleek and smart way to keep garments refreshed daily.

“With health and hygiene top of mind for many people, Samsung is providing a great way to refresh their clothes by removing harmful substances using the Bespoke AirDresser,” said Hyesoon Yang, Vice President and Head of Customer Experience of the Digital Appliances Business at Samsung Electronics. “In addition, the Bespoke AirDresser also removes odor-causing gases released during the cleaning process and prevents them from building up inside the unit to keep every load smelling fresh.”

Neutralize Germs and Odors To Keep Your Wardrobe Fresh

To keep your clothes fresh and ready for any occasion, Bespoke AirDresser’s Sanitize function uses powerful JetSteam to steam and refresh your garments. Infusing high temperature heat deep into the fabric, the JetSteam system eliminates 99.9% of common bacteria and viruses and kills 100% of house dust mites² to refresh linens, bedding and even baby clothes and soft toys for safe use.

Bespoke AirDresser also uses a Deodorizing Filter that eliminates 99% of odor-causing gases including those from sweat, tobacco and food. Made of ceramic, which works effectively even in humid and damp conditions, the filter breaks down odor-causing particles to prevent unpleasant smells from building up inside the device.

Better still, Bespoke AirDresser’s Wrinkle Care uses JetAir and JetSteam to smooth out creases in clothes, so your clothes are ready to wear when you need them.

Save Time and Energy With Powerful, Intelligent Features

Bespoke AirDresser doesn’t just make clothing care more convenient; it adapts itself to fit your lifestyle. The AI Control feature personalizes your controls by remembering habits³—such as your most frequently used cycles—so you don’t have to flip through menus to get to your favorite options and settings. If you also own a Samsung smart washer, you can connect it to your Bespoke AirDresser through the SmartThings application and receive a recommendation for the most appropriate drying course according to the wash cycle you’ve just finished.⁴

After sanitizing your clothes, intelligent systems take over once again. Using a humidity sensor on the inside of the door, Bespoke AirDresser’s AI Dry technology continually senses the humidity of your clothes and intelligently reduces drying time accordingly, so your laundry is always dried thoroughly in the shortest possible time.

Clean Longer Clothes Conveniently

Whether you’ve got large winter coats, or flowing summer dresses, Bespoke AirDresser’s Long Dress Zone is specially designed to handle your longest garments. While long dresses, coats and jackets can be difficult to fit into conventional clothing care devices, Bespoke AirDresser features a space 143 centimeters tall to fit items up to 20 centimeters longer than in the rest of the cabinet.

Upgrade Your Home in Style

Available in six different color and material options⁵—including Crystal Mirror, Glam White, Glam Pink, Satin Beige, Cotta White and Cotta Charcoal—Bespoke AirDresser’s customizability means you can choose a design that will blend seamlessly into the décor of your home. It comes in two sizes, 18-inch and 24-inch, holding three or five pieces of clothing depending on the needs of your lifestyle.

To complete its modern, minimalist design, the front panel features a slim, intuitive interface with simplified buttons that make it easier to select settings and options and improves visibility and accessibility.

For more information about the Bespoke AirDresser, please visit Samsung.com.

¹ Witnessed by Intertek. Eliminates 99% of Iso-Valeric acid: sweat, 4-Ethenyl pyridine: tobacco, Valeraldehyde: roasting meat, and Tetrachloroethylene: dry cleaning. Testing for Iso-Valeric acid and 4-Ethenyl pyridine based on KS K0891 Standard. Results may vary depending on the actual usage conditions.

² Witnessed by Intertek. Kills 100% of house dust mites

³ Stores user data, preferences and usage patterns to suggest the most useful options.

⁴ Auto Cycle Link is only available when both the AirDresser and washer have Wi-Fi connected and are registered on the SmartThings application. A Wi-Fi connection is required at all times, which may increase energy consumption. Not available on certain models and in certain regions.

⁵ The 18″ (3-piece) model has choice of colors and finishes available as standard, and additional panels can be purchased separately. The 24″ (5-piece) model has a Crystal Mirror finish as standard, but additional panels in a choice of colors and finishes can be purchased separately.

Over the past year, we have been spending more time at home with more people doing more things under one roof. For some, this has meant that home management – keeping everything running smoothly and clean – has become quite complicated.

This ‘new normal’ way of living has driven the need for an ecosystem of products, IoT solutions, and digital services that streamline daily routines and help us run our homes more efficiently through automation and smart recommendations.

At Bespoke Home 2021, Samsung introduced SmartThings services that are already available or will become available in 2021, helping to make life at home seamless and free up more time and energy for the things that matter.

SmartThings Cooking

Whether out of curiosity or necessity, many of us have upgraded our cooking game this past year.

SmartThings Cooking can help upgrade your culinary journey by seamlessly integrating your kitchen experience from meal prep to shopping. Powered by Whisk’s Food AI, SmartThings Cooking learns your unique tastes, preferences, and nutritional goals to curate personalized recipe recommendations and meal plans. By understanding your favorite ingredients or devices and groceries you have on hand, the service suggests recipes you will like, guides you through the planning, shopping, and cooking processes — all while communicating directly with your smart Samsung kitchen appliances.

If you own a Family Hub, SmartThings Cooking can link with your fridge’s ViewInside cameras. Using AI food recognition capabilities, the cameras can automatically scan the products inside your fridge and identify them. You can view this on your Family Hub screen.¹

An automatic Meal Planner recommends meals for the week and generates shopping lists for missing ingredients. If you like, you can then connect directly to online grocery retailers for checkout straight from your smartphone.

When you’re ready to start cooking, SmartThings Cooking becomes your sous-chef as your Samsung appliances communicate directly with each other. SmartThings Cooking will send recipe data straight to your smart range or oven to make sure that your settings are entered precisely, giving you one less thing to worry about. Bon appetite!

SmartThings Clothing Care

Although suits and formal wear don’t get worn as much as they used to, we still fill hampers on a daily basis. SmartThings Clothing Care, which works with smart Samsung washers and dryers, as well as the new Bespoke AirDresser, provides three key services so you can sort it all out with ease.

The service can recommend cycles for your wash based on garment materials, your usage patterns, weather, and season.

SmartThings Clothing Care also keeps track of the detergent levels in your washer and features a Smart Reorder² function that helps you manage and purchase laundry supplies by placing orders online.

Starting in the second half of 2021,³ custom cycles are also easy to manage with SmartThings Clothing Care. You can store up to ten custom cycles and name them yourself, so if you have a penchant for delicate vintage clothes or leather you can save separate options for each of them.

SmartThings Air

With parents, kids, pets and roommates running around the house, it’s critical to stay aware of air quality in various parts of the home as well as outside.

SmartThings Air gives you important information about air quality in each part of your home, and even outside.

SmartThings Air can suggest helpful tips and even automate settings that activate synced air conditioners, air purifiers, air sensors, and window sensors to manage your surrounding air quality.⁴ Breathe easy with real-time air quality alerts and functions that are tailored to your needs while SmartThings Air gives you the information you need to ensure your home’s ventilation and air circulation are in check.

SmartThings Pet

If you’ve ever wished you had a way to keep an eye on your pet while you’re away, SmartThings Pet is the service for you.

When in Pet Care Mode, the service uses the camera on Samsung’s Jet Bot AI+* robot vacuum to record videos of your pet whenever it comes into view, and send those videos to you in real time. The Jet Bot AI+* is powered by Intel AI, and can learn to recognize your pet.

In addition, the service can connect to other SmartThings devices in your home including air conditioners, lights, air purifiers and more, letting you change the settings remotely to make your pet as comfortable as possible, even when you’re not at home.

^* The new product names go into effect on July 5, 2021. This is a change to the product name only. Jet Bot AI+ will become Bespoke Jet Bot AI+.

** All functionality, features, specifications and other product information provided in this document including, but not limited to, the benefits, design, pricing, components, performance, availability, and capabilities of the product are subject to change without notice.

¹ Unavailable on mobile. Availability and functionality may vary by region.

² Currently available in the U.S., with plans to expand to select markets. Availability and functionality may vary by region.

³ U.S. only, with plans to expand to select markets. Availability and functionality may vary by region.

⁴ Availability and functionality may vary by region.