Samsung is giving SmartThings an AI upgrade to simplify your smart home routines

Simplifying the smart home is no easy task, yet we smart home users are always striving to do it. At Samsung Unpacked 2025, the company unveiled new Home AI features for its SmartThings platform designed to simplify daily life. This is part of Samsung's initiative towards a more personalized, knowledge-based AI experience that can learn from your habits and apply this knowledge across multiple apps. 

The new Home AI features will detect when someone is working out or sleeping, for example, to suggest different routines for the activity. For example, if you always exercise with loud music and work in complete silence, it can suggest routines to automatically switch off the music while working at your desk. Alternatively, if your TV is on but you've fallen asleep, it can switch off the TV and run your bedtime automations, like turning off your smart lights. 

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This is part of what Samsung introduced as part of the Ambient Sensing Foundation Model. This vision uses advanced sensor technology, like occupancy, motion, and sound sensors, to identify what activities you're doing in your home and proactively create the perfect environment for each.

Samsung will generate a 3D map of your home with Map View technology, and then it can identify which room or area you're occupying, depending on what the sensors capture. This adds a layer of user-specific customizations for tailored activities and routines with specific objects and during situations, all powered by generative AI. The personalized map lets users navigate their home layout in the SmartThings app and easily interact with their home and routine suggestions. 

Instead of using traditional smart sensors, Samsung plans to use millimeter-wave (mmWave) and sound sensors to capture more precise data. mmWave sensors can detect activity more accurately than other movement sensors, capable of discerning whether someone is sleeping, cooking, or moving. 

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Of course, having sensors in your home to recognize what you're doing at all times sounds like a privacy nightmare. Samsung is emphasizing its focus on privacy by employing local data storage for all this information. This would address feelings of unease about vulnerabilities around cloud-based data storage, but many users may still feel apprehensive about the idea.