Your smart fridge can now warn you when you’ve spent too long in the shower

Samsung is integrating Kohler’s Anthem luxury astute showers into its SmartThings ecosystem, allowing users to power the shower, set its temperature, acceptable timers, and negociate presets, arsenic good arsenic show h2o usage done SmartThings-compatible devices.

Kohler’s Anthem astute showers tin beryllium operated utilizing carnal controllers mounted wrong the showers oregon successful a bath utilizing the Kohler Konnect app connected a smartphone oregon done existing integrations with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple Home. This caller concern volition grow the distant power options for Anthem installations to the SmartThings app moving connected Samsung astute TVs, hubs, and mobile devices. It volition besides let the astute showers to beryllium integrated into automated routines.

Unfortunately for radical who imagination of being capable to turn connected the ablution from their fridge, Kohler’s Anthem showers outgo thousands of dollars for the hardware alone, not counting installation, plumbing, electrical, oregon tile work. The Anthem Plus ablution controller system, which was introduced astatine CES 2024, is $2,800. This somewhat limits the interaction of the partnership, arsenic good arsenic the imaginable to prank your housemates by changing the somesthesia of the ablution from crossed the location portion they’re utilizing it.

To assistance marque users much alert of their h2o depletion and to beforehand “more sustainable h2o usage habits,” the monitoring information collected by Kohler’s Anthem astute showers volition beryllium incorporated into a caller h2o furniture coming to SmartThings Map View, which displays the determination of astute devices successful a 3D practice of a home.

The h2o furniture feature, debuting successful aboriginal 2025, volition grow Samsung’s efforts to marque consumers much alert of however they’re consuming resources successful their homes. “As the narration with Kohler expands, we’re precise excited astir the representation view. Water absorption and sustainability conscionable fits precise good with what we’re trying to bash wide with making the satellite a amended place,” says Mark Benson, caput of Samsung SmartThings US.

Kohler’s Anthem astute showers volition beryllium the archetypal devices compatible with the caller SmartThings Map View feature, but Benson says that different water-related astute devices volition besides beryllium capable to provender information to the h2o layer, giving consumers much insights into however they tin beryllium liable astir their h2o usage.