Of all the smart home announcements revealed during CES 2024, it's Samsung's new SmartThings Map View feature that has me most excited. This ingenious upgrade lets you create an interactive floor plan of your home. You can use it to place your smart home gadgets exactly where they are set up in your rooms so that you can easily monitor and control your devices with a single tap.
SmartThings has served as Samsung's home automation platform for the last decade. Map View freshens up its list-based interface with an overhead 3D view of your room's floor plan. A quick glance at this visual lets you see the live status of all your devices or control them instantly with a tap. You simply drag and drop each connected gadget to the exact location where it sits in the room. For example, you can tap directly on a bulb to turn it on or off from your mobile app or smart home device. This streamlines your controls since you don't need to scroll through a list of devices to operate a specific one.
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