SmartThings Hub No Longer on Amazon?

[JDRoberts]

@Richierich

watched the keynote and nothing obvious there… quite the opposite they are saying about the importance of ST.
Only point was about Artik and more specifically Artik cloud which seemed to both conflict and complement ST. The demo video showed it connected as a rules engine doing things but seamlessly integrated with ST.

Artik Cloud discussion here:

Samsung Artik Cloud adds Echo and IFTTT integration!

This is a really big deal, but it’s super technical, so it hasn’t gotten much press yet. Samsung has had a project for several years (since before the acquisition of SmartThings) to create a Data cloud that would allow for massive real-time transmission of data between third-party services and devices. First conceptualized for health and medical devices, it quickly became obvious that it would also be useful for IOT projects. Samsung has been using it for their Samsung health systems for a while. It was originally called SAMIio, then later part of it was renamed the “SmartThings open cloud” even though it had nothing to do with the SmartThings hub or the cloud architecture that supports that hub. ( Samsung now owns the SmartThings name, they can do what they want with it.) Last year, Sa…