the SmartThings-style WiFi router

If you were looking for an easy to install Google Wifi or Eero mesh routing system but with an integrated SmartThings hub, look no further, here is the Samsung Connect health home.

The Samsung Connect health home was announced the day before yesterday at the brand's Unpacked event. This first Samsung Wi-Fi system is a 2 × 2 MU-MIMO 802.11ac mid-system that looks like it’s like Google Wifi.

Simply put, this is a compact wireless router with two network ports. Sold in packs of three, it connects to your internet modem. The rest of the elements serve as a network extension to the rest of your health home. Of course, you can also connect only one module to your modem if it is enough to offer you good wireless coverage at health home.

Obviously, like all Wi-Fi systems, Connect health home is smart health connected to a mobile application that you use to configure and manage your health home network. Samsung also revealed it the day before yesterday, it's Samsung Connect. At the moment, the app is only available for S8 and S8 + phones. Other Android phones will be able to use it towards the end of 2017; it’s not impossible that the app is also available for iOS devices.

As I told you yesterday, Samsung is betting a lot on this application. In addition to managing the Wi-Fi network, it will also allow you to configure and manage your smart health connected objects and your entire smarthome. The router also functions as a hub for Samsung’s SmartThings health home automation system, and the app will allow you to program and control SmartThings compatible devices with products from third-party manufacturers.

So, will Samsung finally exploit the performance of SmartThings; a company bought in 2014. This is in any case the first time that Samsung has merged its own consumer devices with SmartThings compatible products. You will no longer need a separate SmartThings Hub. According to Samsung, Connect health home incorporates Zigbee and Z-Wave wireless standards. This is what makes it compatible with hundreds of smart devices, such as smart health connected lamps and bulbs. Philips Hue, the Netgear Arlo camera, etc. If the device and software work as expected, you will just need Connect health home to control your entire health home and have wifi coverage in every corner of your health home.

Besides the 2 × 2 version of Connect health home, Samsung will also offer a Pro version. The Connect health home Pro will be the same size, but will support more sophisticated WiFi specifications (4 × 4 MU-MIMO 802.11ac). If you are interested in these products, you will have to wait a bit until they will not be marketed until the second half of 2017.

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