Lost devices are a huge problem, but tracking technology has come a long way in a short space of time, making it easier for us to find our expensive gadgets and gizmos.
[SDC22] SmartThings Find: Find together with over 200 million users
Samsung is a company that makes a lot of gadgets, and thankfully has a system for finding them called SmartThings Find. The company just announced a major milestone for the service, with 200 million nodes currently in operation worldwide.
What does this mean exactly? SmartThings Find doesn’t require Wi-Fi or satellites. It uses nodes, aka other Samsung devices, to locate lost gadgets using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and ultra-wideband (UWB) technologies.
Once you sign up for the service, your Samsung gadget will go to work finding lost devices by triangulating location data with nearby devices. And now that there are 200 million nodes, finding lost Samsung phones, tablets and other items just got a whole lot easier.
