Interview With Samsung Vp Jaeyeon Jung on the New Galaxy Smarttag and How It Fits Into the Smartthings Ecosystem, Which as of December Had 66m Active Users (Interview Samsung Fastcompany Vp Jaeyeon Jung)

Interview Samsung Fastcompany Vp Jaeyeon Jung: Samsung Electronics America, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a South Korean multinational conglomerate headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. The Company is engaged in the research, development and manufacture of electronic systems for consumer electronics and business markets with a focus on displays, semiconductor solutions and wireless telecommunications products such as smartphones and mobile tablets within its Home Entertainment, Healthcare (Medical & Fitness) & Government components sectors..

The company acquired SmartThings, a company that makes an open-source platform to connect Internet of Things devices.

Jaeyeon Jung is currently serving as the Senior Vice President of Samsung Research and Development Institute America (SRDIA), which he joined in January 2014. SRDIA is part of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (SEC), which is a subsidiary of Korean Electronics giant, Samsung Group founded by Lee Byung Chull in 1938. SRDIA is a research and development arm for the U.S. and Canadian market. Mr. Jaeyeon Jung is Vice President of Samsung Telecommunications America, Inc., which he joined in 1997, and is also currently serving as the Director of the Wireless Connectivity Business Center within the U.S. subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.. As an executive for R&D organization, Mr. Jung also served as an employee at UTS, part of Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST). He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Climate Corporation, a pioneer in the environment-friendly refrigeration industry.

SmartThings was originally an open source project started as part of the National Science Foundation’s Sensor Web project. The SmartThings platform is currently available to developers via an SDK. The SmartThings developer community with more than 50,000 active users has created over 100 apps.

Read the code, build on it and share your work. That’s the promise Samsung is making with the news that it has launched a new open source project: SmartThings.

The SmartThings open source code and development platform is available on GitHub. “As part of the launch, we launched a new SmartThings Cloud Sandbox, a place where developers can get started quickly and easily,” said David Brannan, vice president of business and corporate development at SmartThings. The company is also announcing a $3.2 million developer fund to stimulate innovation in the IoT space using the SmartThings platform.

The use of SmartThings SDK is completely free, but users must pay for a SmartThings Hub itself (which costs $99).

Samsung has been developing IoT solutions for years, in various business segments including home electronics, mobile phones, health care and digital appliances. In June last year, Samsung purchased the U.S.-based home automation company SmartThings. The acquisition led to the shift of SmartThings’ business strategy to focus on the U.S., and changed its name to Samsung SmartThings.

The Seoul-based conglomerate is also pushing for an open platform approach for its cloud-based IoT development program, IoT Starter Solution, launched earlier this year. The solution allows developers and users to create apps using the native SDKs of various IoT devices, and it includes a marketplace (called IoT Marketplace) where developers can sell their apps created using the platform.