Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance have joined hands to form a group called ‘Connected Home over IP’. The project aims at developing and promoting the adoption of an open-source smart home standard to make it easier for manufacturers to create new devices that work together.
Zigbee Alliance board member companies such as Ikea, Legrand, NXP Semiconductors, Resideo, Samsung SmartThings, Schneider Electric, Signify, Silicon Labs, Somfy and Wulian are also onboard to contribute to the project. The project is built to ensure that smart home devices should be secure, reliable, and seamless to use. By building the Internet Protocol (IP), the project aims to allow communication across smart home devices, mobile apps, and cloud services and to define a specific set of IP-based networking technologies.
The project aims to make it easier for device manufacturers to build devices that are compatible with smart home and voice services such as Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Google’s Assistant, and others. According to the group, devices will have to support Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy or Thread to work with the new system. To learn more about this alliance, you can visit connectedhomeip.com.
