#5 SmartThings: Make Your World Smarter

“Adding intelligence to everyday things in your world, so that your life can be more awesome.”

Backers: 5,694

Pledged: $1,209,423

Goal: $250,000 goal

Funding period: Aug 23, 2012 - Sep 22, 2012 (30 days)

Project by: SmartThings, Minneapolis, MN.

SmartThings is revolutionizing the Machine-to-machine (M2M) technology, making it easy to connect the things in the physical world to the Internet. Not only the Smartphones and tablets, but also things like televisions, gas pumps, health monitoring equipment, home appliances, security cameras, parking meters, shipping containers, industrial equipment, cars, and many more can be connected via internet and make them function the way you want either by the comfortable couch of your home or seat of car.

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