SmartThings Edge will automatically make your home automations even faster by ditching the cloud – TalkAndroid

Samsung has announced SmartThings Edge, which isnt necessarily a new product, but a backend for all of your interconnected SmartThings gizmos and gadgets.

Its technically a new hub architecture, and Samsung says it should make all of your home automations even faster and easier.

The biggest takeaway from this announcement is that you wont see anything different on your app or directly with your devices. But going forward, your SmartThings Hub will be handling automation processing on device, instead of relying not he cloud for that processing power.

Theres some big advantages to this, including less latency and more reliability. Even if your internet is getting a little spotty, your automations should still work without a hitch, and theyll be quicker than they were before. You can also fully run your automations while offline, in case youre in a complete internet outage or maybe you just specifically dont have internet at your home.

Additionally, developers can now build device drivers with Lua as part of moving away from the old SmartThings platform, which should speed things up for other devices that youre trying to automate. Win/win all around.

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SmartThings Edge will automatically make your home automations even faster by ditching the cloud - TalkAndroid