SmartThings provides wireless cloud based software.It offers a smartphone app that allows its users to monitor and control their domestic affairs even when they are out of their home. They do this by creating a variety of easy-to-use sensors to be placed at home, office, and car. SmartThings lets these sensors communicate with each other, and with the usersunlocking a new world of possibilities and resulting in the worlds most accessible and advanced open platform for the Internet of Things.SmartThings is based in Mountain View, California and operates independently as a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics.