Thursday, May 14, 2015

Samsung Launches "ARTIK", Platform For Connected Devices


Samsung introduces ARKTIK to people, wishes to speed the development of products and apps faster with the platform's help.
Latest Samsung news is regarding the tech giant’s introduction of ARKTIK. The company has launched a platform which is open, the company claims it shall make the development of smart devices easier and also faster. The platform, named ARKTIK consists of three circuit boards, developer tools, software support and security related embedded encryption.
Along with ARKTIK, the SmartThings chief executive, Alex Hawkinson announced that Open Cloud by SmartThings will also be made available for the developers to create the apps for own devices. SmartThings was acquired by Samsung in August, last year.
The tiniest module in the entire series named ARKTIK 1, is merely 12mm x 12mm. It includes motion sensor which is about 9-axis and is intended for the usage in end nodes and wearables, furthermore it also consists of Bluetooth connectivity of low energy. Samsung news claims that this shall go on for an entire week only on single charge. ARKTIK 10 is the largest board among the series and it consists of eight processor chip, storage of 32 gigabytes and is capable of handling the playback and video encoding. The current users for ARKTIK include Boogio and WeenatBoogio makes the sensors for shoes and Weenat is famous for helping the farmers monitoring their respective fields.
The platform, ARKTIK is now entering the playing field which has seen the presence of platforms similar to it, contributed by its rivals such as QUALCOMM and Intel.
It is suggested that if the new platform introduced by SamsungARKTIK manages to make a different impact as compared to its competitors then it can make a significant mark and importance for the company and its business regarding semiconductors, upon which the company has been counting heavily so the earnings don’t slip further as the business of smartphone has been eroded by the competition it is seeing from other companies such as Micromax and Xiaomi.
In the report of 1Q2015 earnings, which was released last month, the company expressed that second quarter earnings will be boosted according to their belief which will be coming from the sales of the company’s memory chips to other manufacturers of smartphones. The semiconductor unit of the company also was capable to increment to 28.5 percent as compared to that of 20.8 percent which was last year.
The company however is not planning to sell ARKTIK like that to other companies. It has plans to utilize the platform to make the development of its smartphones faster and speedy, other products which it wants to make faster are the home appliances and the televisions.


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