Samsung's SmartThings smart home platform's SmartThings Find feature allows Android and iOS users to find their Samsung Galaxy devices that include phones, watches and RFID tags. Helping smart device owners from losing their favorite smart products, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., has announced that SmartThings Find has expanded to include 300 million “find nodes,” registered and opted-in devices that can help other Samsung Galaxy users find their devices.
The company boasts this milestone demonstrates steady expansion for SmartThings Find, which has registered 100 million more nodes since July 2022, achieving 1.5 times growth in just 10 months. It also means a boost in the efficacy of the device location service, as each opted-in device has the ability to help locate another. The higher the number of devices, the more powerful SmartThings Find becomes for users.
“We’re thrilled to witness this fast growth in SmartThings Find. Our connected device ecosystem enables many new possibilities and meaningful benefits, such as alleviating the stress of misplacing a device and ensuring the safety of belongings,” says Jaeyeon Jung, corporate executive vice president and head of SmartThings at Samsung Electronics.
“With the benefits SmartThings Find provides, we also are deeply committed to the safe and secure use of these technologies. SmartThings Find incorporates enhanced security and privacy features to protect user data and also guard against misuse, and we also are working with the wider industry to support specifications and standards that further enhance security.”
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As Samsung SmartThings Find continues to benefit an increasing number of users, security and privacy remain top priorities for Samsung. To ensure sensitive information is safeguarded, SmartThings Find encrypts user data and implements further protection through Samsung Knox, the defense-grade security platform on Samsung Galaxy devices. A device’s location data is only shared with other people with the user’s permission, and the ID of each user’s device changes every 15 minutes and is stored anonymously.
With the “search for unknown tags near you” feature, Android and iOS users can determine if unknown tags are near them manually. This feature can provide a gauge showing the signal strength of the tag, allowing users to know how close the unknown tag is to their current location. If needed, users can designate certain tags as ‘safe’ if they are identified.
For Galaxy users, SmartThings Find can also provide security through its “unknown tag alerts” feature. This feature alerts users of any unauthorized tracking by sending them a notification if SmartThings Find detects an unknown SmartTag following them. This helps protect users and prevent against the abuse of location tracking services.
To activate the feature, users should locate the Find service within the SmartThings app’s ‘Life’ tab. Within the settings menu, users can toggle ‘Unknown tag alerts’ feature on and off or search for unknown tags near them manually.
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