Startups: The Secret Ingredient of Samsung’s Open Innovation

September 21, 2015

It’s another typical 70 degree day in Silicon Valley. Just a few miles from Stanford University, the streets of University Avenue are bustling with hoodies, laptop bags and outdoor meetings. Inside one particular office, an elite team of experts in sensors, automation, and open ecosystems are plugging away on Samsung Electronics’s next big push into the Internet of Things (IoT).

The team is SmartThings, and they’re building technology that enables any home to be a Smart Home, in which home appliances and accessories connect to the Internet – and to one another.