Samsung has just launched its latest range of smart home appliances for the Indian market from its premium Bespoke series. The new gadgets include new Bespoke Jet series of vacuum cleaners and even a robotic vacuum cleaning model as well. So let’s have a look.

Samsung Bespoke Jet Vacuum Cleaner

The South Korean tech giant’s new Bespoke Jet models includes two models. They feature an All in One Clean station that charges the vacuum cleaners and also automatically empties its dustbin. The Bespoke Jet models is lighter than its predecessor and houses an improved Digital Inverter Motor. The company has announced two new models, namely Bespoke Jet Pet and Bespoke Jet Pro Extra. The Bespoke Jet Pet is available in a Woody Green color variant, while the Bespoke Jet Pro Extra arrives in a Midnight Blue option.

Both model comes with an Advanced Suction Power of up to 210W. It also offers a two times larger battery packs over its predecessor that enables up to 120 mins of total run time. Samsung has also equipped with the Bespoke Jet series model with a 99.99 percent multi layered Filtration system. The company also promises best in class design along with a lightweight build, an integrated digital display, a Telescopic pipe, and a fully washable dustbin.

Bespoke Jet Bot+

The new Bespoke Jet Bot+ is a robotic vacuum cleaner that arrives with a clean station that charges the devices and let’s it clean out its dustbin automatically. It is equipped with LiDAR sensors that allows it to accurately navigate across buyer’s home and offer efficient cleaning. The device features a WiFi Smart Control and users are even offered a Live Cleaning Report that let’s you track the cleaning progress of Jet Bot+ on a virtual map in real time and checking its cleaning history. The Jet Bot+ arrives with voice control support with voice assistants like Bixby, Alexa, and Google Home. This model is available in a Misty White color option and houses high efficiency brush for improved cleaning.

Pricing & Availability

The new Samsung Bespoke Jet Vacuum Cleaner range starts from 65,900 INR with the Jet Bot+, while the Jet Pet model costs 79,900 INR. The top of the line Jet Pro Extra, which is a Vacuum and Mop, will go on sale for 89,900 INR. The new products will be available for purchase from the company’s official website, Samsung Exclusive stores, the new Samsung Shop app and even through known e-commerce platform, Amazon India.

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A team of researchers has seemingly established that commonly used robotic vacuum cleaners can be hacked remotely and used as a microphone. The research group led by Nirupam Roy, an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland in collaboration with assistant professor Jun Han of the University of Singapore, collected information from the laser-based navigation system in a vacuum robot and applied signal processing and deep learning techniques to recover speech and identify television programs playing in the same room where the device was operating.

This research has highlighted the potential for any such device that uses light detection and ranging (Lidar) technology to be manipulated as a monitoring device by transmitting sound, even when such devices do not have a microphone. The revealing work was presented at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2020) last month.

The Lidar navigation systems in household robot vacuum cleaners direct a laser beam around the room whose reflected signals are used to map the room, enabling the robot to navigate through the room without collisions.

It has been suggested that these maps, stored in the cloud most times, pose potential security and privacy breaches that could give unauthorized access to privacy data amidst the risks of hacking. Information about things such as home size and other privileged data could be easily accessible. The research team was of the view that Lidar could pose potential security risks in transforming the robots as sound recording devices in users’ homes or businesses.

The researchers were not quite definitive whether a vacuum robot’s Lidar system could be manipulated to operate as a mic capable of providing meaningful sound signals.

The researchers were of the opinion that their research with vacuum cleaners is just one example of potential vulnerability to Lidar-based espionage activities. Many other devices such as smartphones are also susceptible. Recall how a hacker invaded a US home through the Ring security camera system demanding bitcoin. Other cases abound of similar occurrences. (via)

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