Samsung’s SmartThings to introduce AI features that simplify your daily routines

On Wednesday, Samsung unveiled how SmartThings, its smart home platform, will introduce AI features that allow users to simplify their everyday lives through ambient sensing technology and generative AI. At Samsung Unpacked 2025, the company said the upcoming “Home AI” features will gather insights from a user’s everyday life to create personalized experiences.

Samsung shared that SmartThings will use advanced sensor technology, like motion and sound sensor devices in users’ homes, to understand customers’ daily activities like cooking or sleeping and create the ideal environment.

It’s an ambitious vision. For instance, if a user is exercising, said Samsung, SmartThings will be able to detect which kind of exercise is being done and guide the person on their form. If a user is drying their hair, SmartThings will detect the sound and movement of the action and start that individual’s robot vacuum to clean up stands that have fallen on the floor.

Or SmartThings may activate a user’s air purifier to remove allergens from the air after sensing the person’s miniature pinscher jumping onto the couch.

As for its generative AI technology, SmartThings will ostensibly have a deeper understanding of a user’s home environment, allowing for additional personalization.

For instance, users will be able to take pictures of objects like chairs so that Samsung’s Map View technology — which allows someone to create a 3D map of their home to find and operate the different devices there — can enable more intuitive interactions. SmartThings might adjust a user’s lighting or temperature settings based on their proximity to certain areas or objects, for example.

The company says all information will be stored locally on a user’s network and that none of a person’s data will be stored in the cloud or accessible to third parties without that individual’s consent.

Samsung says these updates will roll out throughout 2025 and 2026.