CES 2013: LG's Dash to Deliver a Smart Connected Home

CES 2013: LG's Dash to Deliver a Smart Connected Home
South Korean tech giant LG put up quite a show at CES 2013, wowing the audience with the word's most extensive series of 3D capable Ultra HDTVs, new Google TV sets, the world's first shipping OLED TV, the word's first and largest curved 3D OLED display,  the world's shortest projection distance for 100 inches of screen entertainment with their Laser TV and a 9.1-channel home entertainment system for an immersive surroud sound experience. These were definitely the crowd pullers, but LG has a much bigger agenda in place - to deliver a smart home with a new age of connected appliances and electronics.

The smart home concept isn’t anything new, but trying to integrate as much devices as possible to talk to one another and providing end-users tangible gains from adopting such an ecosystem is the biggest hurdle. To that extent, LG’s goal is to maintain a One-Touch Connectivity model and we’ve seen a few examples of that in action in this year’s CES show. This model covers two aspects - touch to share content across smart devices and touch to control smart appliances.

The first aspect of the model is strongly seen in their home entertainment equipment as LG’s combination of an enhanced SmartShare feature and the improved Magic Remote aim to help users achieve a “smart life”. SmartShare supports a variety of media communication and transfer protocols like Intel’s WiDi, Miracast and even NFC tagging to instantly transfer media content from one compatible device to another over Wi-Fi or 3G/4G. While LG SmartShare compliant products work best and most seamlessly, such as their new range of Blu-ray players and AV equipment, technically, such seamless sharing is possible with other compatible devices utilizing the same transfer protocols.