Saturday, November 14, 2015

SmartThings is an App + Hub + Devices (things)

All things are connected to Hub, be it 2 or 200. The hub has various protocols implementations such as Zigbee or Z-wave or others. 



The App is having below few features 

- The landing page shows overall status of the home. whether everything is okay. and if something gone wrong, ARM, or Disarm the home etc
- Then the next tab shows Home in which there are rooms and individual things.
- Rooms can be Kitchen or any other things
- Things are the IoT things 
- SmartApps are basically rule based items 
- Family is the presence of other members in the family  
- The third tab has Routines which is basically a specific event and associated actions on things. For e.g. One such event is Good morning. This has internally turn off AC, turn off certain bulbs etc. 
- Next Tab is for notifications. This tab has two sections, on is for messages. This is like a chat window, where it displays instructions given by the user and the feedback given by the things. The Activity Feed represents the activities performed 
- The last tab is the market place where we can buy the hardware and also the SmartApps which is nothing but rules. 


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