100% Wi-Fi-capable fleet visibility
Every Samsung device with a Wi-Fi radio is observable from the moment it powers on — with or without SmartThings setup. Doubles effective fleet coverage against the ~50% industry-average connection rate.
For Samsung Next
A Wi-Fi observation layer for the Samsung ecosystem.
Every Samsung device that ships a Wi-Fi radio becomes a node on a global observation network — visible whether the customer ever connects it to SmartThings or not. Doubling the addressable fleet, closing the SmartTag distance ceiling, and beating Apple Find My on the one metric Samsung can actually win.
01 · Thesis
One firmware payload. Every Samsung radio. A network Apple structurally cannot match.
Troverlo runs a connectionless, firmware-only payload on Wi-Fi radios Samsung already ships — Galaxy phones and Books, Bespoke appliances, Neo QLED and The Frame, Galaxy Watch and Buds, SmartThings hubs, Harman head units in the car. Beacon and scan only. Same power class as BLE. No data connection. No association. No handshake. No new BOM. No consumer setup.
Every device becomes both an observation point and an observable asset — from the moment it powers on, whether the customer ever links it to SmartThings or not. Combined with our strategic partnership with HERE Technologies and the wider Troverlo partner ecosystem, the result is an observation network Apple cannot out-density outside its home market.
02 · The connection gap Samsung already knows about
~50%
of smart appliances sold industry-wide never connect to Wi-Fi after installation.
Half the fleet is invisible today. Troverlo makes it 100%.
LG has publicly acknowledged that less than half of its smart appliances stay connected after installation. Whirlpool says "more than half" but has declined to specify. In Samsung's best market — Korea — 76% of Wi-Fi-enabled Samsung appliances released after 2017 are on SmartThings. Globally, Samsung has not published the number, which is itself telling.
A connectionless Wi-Fi payload does not depend on the customer completing setup, entering credentials, keeping the app installed, or updating Wi-Fi after a router change. Every Wi-Fi-capable Samsung device is visible on the observation network from the moment it powers on. Doubled effective fleet coverage. No consumer action required.
33M
Samsung appliances on SmartThings (Dec 2025)
410M+
SmartThings users worldwide (Jul 2025)
100%
of Samsung Wi-Fi products, since 2024
2×
effective fleet visibility with Troverlo
03 · The network effect
Every Troverlo partner grows the network. The Samsung ecosystem joins as a peer node.
The observation layer is not just HERE. Every Troverlo partner and customer contributes observations back into the same fabric — enterprise endpoint fleets, industrial silicon modules, government IT deployments, defense mission assets, and OEM integrations under active development across power tools, connected fitness, e-bikes, and pro audio. Samsung's home appliances, mobile, wearable, TV, and automotive fleets would each participate the same way.
Troverlo
Global Observation Network
HERE TechnologiesBillions of Wi-Fi scans / week
Enterprise endpointsPC + device fleets
Government ITFederal + defense fleets
Industrial siliconWi-Fi SoC modules
Defense platformsMission asset fleets
Samsung ecosystemAppliances, Galaxy phones + tablets, wearables, TVs, Harman
Samsung joining does not just extend the network to their fleet — every Samsung Wi-Fi radio both contributes observations and is observed by every other partner endpoint, in every environment those endpoints operate. This is a genuine two-sided ecosystem: value grows non-linearly with each new participant, and Samsung's home-appliance, mobile, wearable, TV, and automotive fleets each amplify the network for every other participant while gaining the benefit of everyone else's presence.
04 · The distance ceiling this removes
SmartTag lives inside the Bluetooth ceiling.
Galaxy SmartTag and SmartTag2 depend on Bluetooth Low Energy and on another Galaxy phone being nearby — with SmartThings Find on, Bluetooth on, and location services set to "Always allow." That is the same 300-foot dependency every BLE tracker platform lives under.
Apple wins Find My globally because there are roughly a billion iPhones with Find My on. Samsung cannot out-density Apple in the US. But Samsung plus Troverlo does not have to — Wi-Fi observation, backed by HERE and the wider partner ecosystem, is the technical leap that changes the math outside the US, where the Galaxy fleet is already dominant.
Today · BLE only
300 ft
Requires another Galaxy phone with SmartThings Find on, nearby.
With Troverlo · Wi-Fi observation
Global
HERE, partner endpoints, and every Samsung Wi-Fi radio — connected or not.
05 · What Troverlo delivers to the ecosystem
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Five benefits, one firmware payload.
Telemetry
Continuous device state, presence, and location off every product line — Galaxy, appliance, TV, wearable, automotive — without an active app session or a paired phone. Feeds SmartThings directly.
Connectionless location
Assets are seen and located without associating to any network, without a SIM, and without a paired phone. Works when the target is off, off-network, unpaired, or in a market where the Galaxy app population is thin.
Low power
Beacon and scan only. No Wi-Fi data connection, no association, no handshake. Same power budget as BLE, orders of magnitude below anything carrying a Wi-Fi data session.
Zero new infrastructure
Runs on the Wi-Fi radios Samsung already ships, backed by the global observation network Troverlo already operates. No gateways, no hubs, no SDK on the consumer phone.
06 · Four paths in, all pursuable in parallel
Path 01
SmartTag3 as a Wi-Fi observation product
Replace or complement the BLE radio with a Troverlo Wi-Fi observation payload. Ships with the HERE global network and partner ecosystem from day one. Leapfrogs AirTag on global density immediately — without adding a subscription, a SIM, or a new app requirement.
Path 02
Firmware payload across the Samsung ecosystem
Bespoke appliances, SmartThings hubs, Galaxy Book, Galaxy Watch, The Frame, Neo QLED — every Samsung product becomes an observation point for every other Samsung product, and visible on the network from power-on. SmartThings Find becomes the category leader, not the category follower.
Path 03
Harman automotive
Harman head units contribute moving Wi-Fi observations to the same network HERE contributes to — scaling with new-car sales, across every automaker Harman ships into. A first-of-its-kind moving observation fabric.
Paths 01–03 monetize inside the Samsung ecosystem. Path 04 monetizes outside it.
Path 04
Samsung Wi-Fi silicon as the offline-capable module every OEM wants
The moment a Troverlo-integrated payload rides inside the Samsung Wi-Fi module, that module becomes the differentiator no other Wi-Fi chip vendor can match. Any PC OEM that designs it in inherits offline lock, wipe, and locate capability without adding a cellular BOM or sourcing a second radio. Any consumer-product maker, industrial-equipment supplier, medical-device builder, or appliance manufacturer that designs it in inherits offline telemetry — location, presence, and state — without adding a hub, gateway, or subscription.
Silicon distribution becomes platform distribution. Every Samsung Wi-Fi chip Samsung LSI ships into a non-Samsung device is a new observation point on the network and a new device visible in SmartThings' fabric — with no third-party OEM outreach, no partner integration engineering, no license negotiation. The chip does the work.
This is where the SmartThings platform stops being a Samsung ecosystem story and becomes an industry-wide observation-and-control layer — Samsung LSI selling the ability to be seen and controlled offline, at silicon economics, across every device category that ships a Wi-Fi radio.
Higher ASP on the Wi-Fi module itself
Differentiated Samsung silicon commands a premium versus commodity Wi-Fi SoCs from Realtek, MediaTek, and others. Enterprise-grade offline capability is not a feature buyers can price-compare across silicon vendors, because Samsung LSI is the only vendor that can deliver it.
Downstream SmartThings platform expansion
Every third-party device shipping the chip becomes visible in SmartThings without SmartThings having to onboard the OEM. Fleet grows non-linearly with silicon volume, independent of ecosystem-integration effort.
07 · Why Samsung, specifically
Samsung is the only company on our list where the chip-level path is a same-company conversation.
Samsung LSI designs the connectivity SoCs. Samsung Foundry manufactures them. Samsung Electronics ships them across mobile, appliance, TV, and Harman automotive. That collapses the OEM-vs-silicon-vendor dance every other prospect has to run — and it is the reason Samsung is uniquely positioned to make Wi-Fi observation a platform-wide feature, not a per-product integration.
The pitch, in one line: every Samsung Wi-Fi radio, one firmware payload, one global observation network. Beat Find My where Apple cannot follow, and see the half of your fleet that has never been connected.
Find My · side by side
Two devices. One moment.
Two devices. One moment.
Microsoft's Find my device and Troverlo, captured 60 seconds apart.
A first-party comparison. Two devices signed into the same Microsoft account and instrumented with Troverlo. Both actually sitting at Lucky Goat Coffee, 3345 University Dr E, Bryan, TX. Screenshots captured on August 19, 2026 between 9:37 and 9:44 AM CDT. Nothing staged, nothing recreated.
The setup
Same two devices. Same account. Same moment.
Cody-XPS
Dell XPS-13 running Windows, signed into [email protected] Microsoft account, currently online, 99% battery, sitting on a table at the coffee shop.
CodySurface
Microsoft Surface running Windows, same Microsoft account, but has been offline, disconnected, and moving around for several days before arriving at the coffee shop this morning.
Both instrumented
Both devices are enrolled in Microsoft's Find my device (Location on) and both are also tagged in the Troverlo Observation Network. Same devices, two different location systems, checked at the same time.
Microsoft's result
What Microsoft's Find my device returns.
From account.microsoft.com/devices, signed into the same account that owns both devices, captured between 9:41 and 9:43 AM CDT on August 19, 2026.
Cody-XPS online now
- Last updated8/17/2026 · 48 hours ago
- Address shown815 Texas Ave, College Station, TX 77840
- Map pinDoes not correspond to the address shown — appears dropped roughly in central College Station
- Actual location3345 University Dr E, Bryan, TX
- Distance from actual~5.5 miles
CodySurface offline & mobile for days
- Address shown1650 Bird Pond Rd, College Station, TX 77845
- Reality of that addressDevice has not been at this address in over a year
- Map pinDoes not correspond to the address shown — appears dropped roughly in central College Station
- Battery shown100% · stale telemetry, not a current reading
- Actual location3345 University Dr E, Bryan, TX
- Distance from actual~10 miles
- Update location (offline)Cannot fetch a fix — device is off-network
Refreshing the panel and selecting Microsoft's "Update location" control did not correct either address or either map pin during the capture window. Both devices are shown with addresses and pins that do not match each other and do not match the devices' actual location.
Troverlo's result
What Troverlo returns for the same two devices.
From portal.find.troverlo.com, the same Microsoft account owner, captured at 9:37–9:38 AM CDT on August 19, 2026 — inside the same two-minute window as the Microsoft screenshots.
Cody-XPS-HGVVYK4 Dell XPS-13
- Observation timestamp2026-08-19 9:38:04 AM CDT · < 6 min old
- Address3345 University Dr E, Bryan, TX 77802
- Map pinMatches the address
- Accuracy7.5 meters
CodySurface-0F0184J23063BF offline for days
- Observation timestamp2026-08-19 9:37:07 AM CDT · < 7 min old
- Address3345 University Dr E, Bryan, TX 77802
- Map pinMatches the address
- Accuracy0.16 meters · sub-meter
- Located while offlineYes — off-network, mobile for days prior
Objective comparison
Side by side, one row per fact.
| Microsoft Find my device | Troverlo | |
|---|---|---|
| Freshness — online device (XPS) | 48 hours | Less than 6 minutes |
| Freshness — offline device (Surface) | Stale — device has not been at the address shown in over a year | Less than 7 minutes |
| Locates a device that is off-network | No — shows a stale last-known location instead | Yes — observed within the last 7 minutes |
| Address ↔ map pin alignment | Mismatch | Consistent |
| XPS location error vs. actual | ~5.5 miles | 7.5 meters |
| Surface location error vs. actual | ~10 miles | 0.16 meters |
| Requires the device to be online | Yes | No |
| Requires a cellular modem | No | No |
| Requires new hardware on the PC | No | No — uses the Wi-Fi radio already in the device |
| Location source | IP address and cached Wi-Fi / cell fingerprints | Direct observation of the device by a third-party Wi-Fi radio |
| Can be fooled by VPN or corporate egress rewrites | Yes | No — observation happens in the physical environment |
Location error compares Microsoft's returned address (Cody-XPS card) and displayed map pin to the actual physical location of the device (3345 University Dr E, Bryan TX). Troverlo's accuracy figure is the value reported on the observation record.
Why the difference
Two different mechanisms produce two different results.
Microsoft Find my device
The PC reports its own location to Microsoft over the PC's own network connection. When the PC last checked in, Microsoft resolved that check-in against IP-geolocation databases and cached Wi-Fi and cell-tower fingerprints. The result is a location the PC says it is at, not a location a third party observed it at. When the device is off-network the last-known value stays put; when it is online the value can still be wrong by miles because the underlying IP or fingerprint lookup was imprecise or stale.
- Location is derived from IP address and cached Wi-Fi / cell fingerprints, not a scan of what is physically nearby
- Can be fooled by a VPN, a corporate egress node, or a stale fingerprint database
- Device must be powered on and have a working network path to Microsoft for any refresh
- Feature must be enabled before the device is lost
- Not available on all Windows devices — several devices on this account show "Location disabled"
Troverlo
The device beacons a small identifier over standard Wi-Fi frames without associating to any network. Any Wi-Fi radio nearby — an access point, a vehicle, a partner device, another PC — observes the beacon and reports it back through the Troverlo Observation Network with the observer's own GPS-grade position. The location is where a third party actually saw the device, in the physical Wi-Fi environment around it. There is no IP address to look up and no fingerprint to guess. That is why CodySurface was located at sub-meter accuracy while it was offline and moving.
- Location is an observation of the device's real physical environment, not an inference from network metadata
- Cannot be fooled by VPNs, egress rewrites, or outdated fingerprint databases
- Device does not need a network connection or to be booted into the operating system
- Any nearby Wi-Fi radio can be the observer — infrastructure or peer
- Works on the Wi-Fi radio already in every commercial PC
08 · The ask
30 minutes.
A walk-through of the ecosystem argument, the Troverlo technical brief, and a reference architecture. Introductions to Samsung Research America, SmartThings, Harman, or Samsung Electronics MX connectivity — wherever it should land — welcome.
Patented technology
Granted EP + 8 US · 18 International · 42+ Pending