Came across an interesting “integration”

[FGildred]

I’ve put a little bit of time and money into smart home integration and came across this article. After some admittedly very quick research, smartcar does list RAM Trucks as supported. Will be interesting to see where this goes. (If you are into this sort of thing!)

Article:

Samsung SmartThings will integrate with your car later this year

Samsung SmartThings will become the world's first smart home app to add cars to its portfolio of compatible products and ...

www.sammobile.com

Smartcar announcement:

Samsung SmartThings brings cars to its smart home app · Smartcar blog

The IoT technology provider, Samsung SmartThings, has integrated Smartcar within its smart home app and will soon be compatible with most new vehicles in the United States.

smartcar.com

 

[jdmartin]

I know I am probably in the minority in this, but I don't want my truck smart anything. I want it to be about as dumb as a brick.

Pretty much all my life I've dealt with some kind of forward technology. From when I was an electronic tech in the US Navy all the way up to today with SCADA. Tech is great until it goes wrong and then it's a *****. I recently had a new gas range installed. The gas company guys told me they have had two or three customers with "smart" ranges, controllable by an app and hooked to WiFi, where the customer was likely hacked and they physically saw the stove controlling itself as in turning the oven on or changing the temperature.

I have an old Miata. No one can hack my Miata because it is dumb as a box of rocks. The only thing it knows is what my old fashioned hands and feet tell it, and that's how I like it.

 

[silver64]

I know I am probably in the minority in this, but I don't want my truck smart anything. I want it to be about as dumb as a brick.

Pretty much all my life I've dealt with some kind of forward technology. From when I was an electronic tech in the US Navy all the way up to today with SCADA. Tech is great until it goes wrong and then it's a *****. I recently had a new gas range installed. The gas company guys told me they have had two or three customers with "smart" ranges, controllable by an app and hooked to WiFi, where the customer was likely hacked and they physically saw the stove controlling itself as in turning the oven on or changing the temperature.

I have an old Miata. No one can hack my Miata because it is dumb as a box of rocks. The only thing it knows is what my old fashioned hands and feet tell it, and that's how I like it.

Sadly this is a reality already since virtually all new vehicles have wifi systems and can be hacked including the RAM :
" In July of this year, cyber security researchers Charlie Miller of Twitter and Chris Valasek of IOActive used the latest hacking techniques to hack in to the electrical systems of a Jeep Cherokee. They were able to do this without direct physical access to the vehicle.

Using the Internet they were able to gain wireless control of the Jeep Cherokee giving them access to the Jeep’s entertainment system, enabling them to relay commands to its dashboard functions, steering, brakes and transmission, and they were able to do all of this remotely 10 miles away from the vehicle's location."

 

[Patsy1099]

If you have Uconnect with nav/WiFi your truck is already a smart truck of sorts and is hackable and traceable. Even without the feature it is computerized and accessible in various ways. I agree though that while technology is great, security is always a concern.