LG Expands Smart Home Ecosystem with 'Three Open Strategies'
Published2017.10.10 13:56Granting "Works with SmartThinQ" logo to developed products and linking with LG smart home app
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LG Electronics is strengthening its Open Partnership, collaborating with various partners including developers and business partners to expand its smart home ecosystem.
On the 9th, LG Electronics opened a developer website for SmartThinQ, its proprietary smart home platform.
Developers who register on the website become LG Electronics' smart home partners. LG Electronics discloses information such as standard protocol specifications, which are the communication rules of SmartThinQ, and API (Application Programming Interface), which is the programming language, to partner developers.
IoT products developed by partner developers using this information interoperate with LG Electronics' smart home application 'SmartThinQ App' and AI speaker 'SmartThinQ Hub'. LG Electronics has enabled developers to use the 'Works with SmartThinQ' logo to indicate that they are LG Electronics' smart home partners.
The opening of this developer website is significant as LG Electronics not only develops proprietary technologies or collaborates with global companies such as Google and Amazon while preparing for smart home business, but also expands its partner range to include startups and small-to-medium enterprises.
In particular, LG Electronics expects synergy effects in the smart home field by combining various ideas provided by partners with its proprietary AI platform consisting of big data processing about appliance usage patterns, natural language processing, and voice recognition. That is, the plan is to create truly meaningful smart homes by not merely connecting products and devices, but by providing valuable functions that customers need in their real lives.
LG Electronics is expanding its smart home ecosystem based on three 'open' strategies: ▲Open Partnership ▲Open Platform ▲Open Connectivity.
Ryu Hye-jung, Executive Director of LG Electronics' H&A Smart Solution BD Division, emphasized, "Through collaboration with various partners via the open strategy, we will lead the upcoming smart home market."
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