&gt; We’re really excited to launch Samsung ARTIK Cloud, Samsung’s commercial IoT platform to deliver interoperability between devices and applications. Samsung ARTIK Cloud is an open data exchange platform that provides easy-to-use, open APIs and tools to securely collect, store, and act on any data from any connected device or cloud service.<p>I try not to be too cynical but this just sounds like balkanization.  Since it&#x27;s an &quot;open data exchange platform,&quot; is the protocol really open?  Can I implement my own ARTIK backend?