Your inalertigent fridge can now caution you when you’ve spent too prolonged in the shower

Samsung is integrating Kohler’s Anthem luxury inalertigent showers into its SmartThings ecosystem, permiting participaters to handle the shower, adequitable its temperature, set timers, and handle presets, as well as watch water usage thraw SmartThings-compatible devices.

Kohler’s Anthem inalertigent showers can be rund using physical handlelers mounted inside the showers or in a bathroom using the Kohler Konnect app on a inalertigentphone or thraw existing integrations with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple Home. This recent partnership will enhuge the far handle chooseions for Anthem inshighations to the SmartThings app running on Samsung inalertigent TVs, hubs, and mobile devices. It will also permit the inalertigent showers to be fused into automated routines.

To help produce participaters more conscious of their water consumption and to upgrasp “more carry onable water usage habits,” the watching data collected by Kohler’s Anthem inalertigent showers will be integrated into a recent water layer coming to SmartThings Map View, which disjoins the location of inalertigent devices in a 3D reconshort-termation of a home.

The water layer feature, debuting in punctual 2025, will enhuge Samsung’s efforts to produce users more conscious of how they’re consuming resources in their homes. “As the relationship with Kohler enhuges, we’re very excited about the map see. Water handlement and carry onability equitable fits very well with what we’re trying to do overall with making the world a better place,” says Mark Benson, head of Samsung SmartThings US.

Kohler’s Anthem inalertigent showers will be the first devices compatible with the recent SmartThings Map View feature, but Benson says that other water-rhappy inalertigent devices will also be able to feed data to the water layer, giving users more insights into how they can be reliable about their water usage.