India, Dec. 9 -- Connected homes were once a hobby for early adopters who enjoyed wiring sensors and troubleshooting half-broken hubs. Samsung wants that era forgotten. Its engineers are now building a domestic ecosystem where screens, appliances, and AI routines stop behaving like gadgets and start behaving like partners in daily life. Samsung has a 'sample' smart home at its Suwon base in South Korea and it shows how far this idea has travelled and how quickly it is becoming the spine of Samsung's long-term strategy for Digital Appliances. Yes, it's no longer just 'home appliances' for Samsung.

Samsung has spent more than a decade shaping SmartThings into the backbone of its connected-home vision. What began as a straightforward way to...