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LG Electronics (LG) will unveil its newest addition to its
IoT ecosystem, SmartThinQ™ Hub, at CES 2016. LG
SmartThinQ Hub serves as a gateway to smart sensors
and connected appliances in the home but is more
than that, with the ability to display reminders from
personal calendars and stream music from its built-
in speaker. The elegantly designed SmartThinQ Hub
includes a 3.5-inch color LCD display and connects to
a smartphone app to facilitate two way communication
with smart appliances and smart sensors in the home.
The SmartThinQ Hub expands LG’s SmartThinQ
platform to monitor and control home appliances such
as washing machines, refrigerators, ovens, robotic
vacuum cleaners, air conditioners and a variety of
sensors. The SmartThinQ Hub plays a central role in
Nordic Semiconductor announces it has launched its
latest ‘nRFready Smart Remote 3’ reference design
that is said to make the development of advanced
Bluetooth
®
Smart remotes as easy as clicking on a list
of check box options, and so minimizing time-to-market
and unnecessary design risk.
LG’s smart home platform by collecting information
from smart appliances as well as conventional devices
connected to SmartThinQ sensors via Wi-Fi, Zigbee
and Bluetooth. Data is displayed in the form of
notifications on the LCD screen or announced through
its embedded speaker, acting as the central “hub” of
the smart home.
As like all other LG home appliances and consumer
products, the LG SmartThinQ Hub is designed to look
great in the home. The unit features a metallic body
in two attractive color schemes: Champagne Gold
and Black. The LCD display is tilted at an angle to
be easily readable and the high-quality speaker can
stream music from thousands of free stations from
iHeartRadio or play whatever is on a smartphone or
tablet via Bluetooth.
The SmartThinQ Hub is compatible with a number
of devices from other manufacturers and service
providers that support the AllJoyn
®
Alliance open
source framework. LG recently formed a partnership
with Lowe’s, the world’s second-largest hardware retail
chain, to integrate LG’s smart devices with Lowe’s
Iris smart home services. LG’s partnerships with
other service providers are a key advantage of LG’s
smart home system, which prioritizes compatibility
across multiple brands. Such partnerships allow LG to
offer packaged bundles that enhance safety, energy
savings, air care or convenience that might include
a SmartThinQ Hub, a SmartThinQ sensor and a
variety of smart appliances and devices from other
manufacturers such as smart lighting, motion sensors
and moisture detecting sensors.
LG ADVANCES SMART HOME
ECOSYSTEM WITH SMARTTHINQ™
HUB AT CES 2016
Developing advanced Bluetooth Smart remotes has been made ‘check-
box-clicking’ easy with Nordic’s latest ‘nRFready Smart Remote 3’
reference design
Targeting remote control OEMs/ODMs and smart TV,
set-top box, and digital media device manufacturers,
the nRFready Smart Remote 3 reference design is
designed to deliver a rich, intuitive, and engaging end-
user experience. It employs state-of-the-art voice input
and speech recognition control, a 6-axis motion
LG's New SMARTTHINQ™ HUB