At its recent developer conference Samsung was keen to talk up its Artik IoT platform and insisted unfashionable OS Tizen has a significant part to play.
ARTIK – Samsung’s IoT platform – was launched two years ago but we haven’t heard much about it since. Now the company seems to be trying to reboot the concept via the time-honoured ‘new and improved’ marketing method. Among the inevitable claims of new end-to-end capabilities is a new module (pictured), which is effectively a mini computer complete with processor, memory and connectivity, that brings a lot of this new-and-improved goodness to IoT devices.
“A smart, powerful IoT platform is key to fostering an interoperable, and most importantly, secure ecosystem,” said James Stansberry, U.S. Head of Artik at Samsung Electronics. “That is why we developed the Samsung Artik Smart IoT platform from the ground up with end-to-end security, and why we continue to integrate new security enhancements across hardware, software, cloud and communications.
“Leveraging Samsung Artik is a value add for our customers,” said Youngsoo Do, SVP of the Digital Control Group at Samsung Electronics. “Samsung Artik is instrumental to Samsung in building secure IoT products, and getting to market faster. The ability to connect to other smart devices also enables new use cases, and is helping us realize our vision of making all Samsung products IoT-enabled.”