Samsung Electronics Company Ltd. President and CEO Boo-Keun Yoon delivered the opening keynote speech at IFA 2014, calling on the consumer electronics industry to agree on open industry standards so that the home of the future can meet the demands of people and adapt to their needs and lifestyles.

​“It’s about human-based innovation. It’s about technology that is not overwhelming and works discretely behind the scenes to adjust to consumers’ needs at the right time,” he said. “I don’t want Samsung to be remembered as a technology company,” Yoon added. “I want us to be remembered for providing unique experiences, because true innovation today is centered on people and their dynamic needs and lifestyles.”

As part of Samsung’s vision for bringing the future home, Yoon said the home of the future will adapt to people’s needs through three key attributes, ultimately becoming a home that cares for people: Show Me: It will make complex data visible and useful so people can make better choices; Know Me: It will learn people’s needs and recognize lifestyle patterns; Tell Me: It will proactively adjust to their needs and provide suggestions without being asked.

Samsung showed a future home concept video that combined currently existing technologies with the future’s, further illustrating just how near the future home is.

Yoon added that each future home will be tailored to the different needs of those who live there. In this way, there will not be one home of the future, but a billion homes of the future tailored to the passions and needs of people.

“We are thrilled to work together with Samsung,” said Alex Hawkinson, CEO of SmartThings. “With the scale of resources and support from Samsung, we’ll be able to expand our platform to even more partners and devices.”