SmartThings collects Spark of Genius award

A company which “adds intelligence to everyday things”, allowing users of its product to control daily activities via their smartphones, has won this year’s Electric Ireland Spark of Genius award.

SmartThings, which connects physical everyday items to the internet via smartphones, allowing them to do things like lock doors and turn on lights remotely, picked up the €100,000 prize at the close of the 2012 Dublin Web Summit.

Beating 1,000 start-up companies to the prize, SmartThings was described as “a well deserved winner” by web summit founder, Paddy Cosgrave.