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MMB Networks Joins Zigbee Alliance Board of Directors
The Zigbee
Alliance, a global association of companies creating, evolving, and
promoting universal open standards for the Internet of Things (IoT),
today announced that MMB
Networks - a leader in IoT enablement - has elevated its membership
in the Alliance to the Promoter level, and been appointed to its Board
of Directors. As an active leader in the Alliance for many years and a
venture-backed company whose customers include major brands and
innovators from across the IoT, MMB is an important addition to the
experience and diversity of the Zigbee
Alliance Board.
Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, MMB Networks is an IoT integrator that
works with leading and innovative companies to solve their complex
connectivity challenges. MMB's hardware, software and expertise
- powered by its RapidConnect
interoperability platform - enable customers to rapidly integrate
wireless connectivity and interoperability into IoT products so they can
focus resources on innovating and creating unique value for their users.
MMB's Zigbee
and Dotdot
portfolios include wireless modules, gateways, embedded software, and
development tools that have enabled customers to create products in a
number of markets including utility and smart energy, solar, commercial
lighting, and smart home.
"MMB's mission is to accelerate innovation and adoption in the IoT - a
goal we share with the Zigbee Alliance (News - Alert)," said Daniel Moneta, co-founder
and CMO of MMB Networks. "From PCs to the Internet to smartphones, every
major acceleration of innovation has been enabled by the availability of
common platforms that anyone could innovate on top of. Too often, IoT
development efforts are invested in simply getting objects to connect to
each other in proprietary ways, limiting the scale of innovation and
consuming resources that should be focused on creating new value for
users. The Zigbee Alliance has created and continues to evolve that
common platform for innovation in the IoT with technologies like Zigbee
and Dotdot that enable all objects to connect and interact. MMB has seen
the power of these technologies drive growth for our customers, and for
us. In joining the board, we recommit our efforts to MMB's and the
Alliance's shared vision."
"As an IoT startup, Zigbee
Certified product eveloper, and integrator that has helped enable
and drive Zigbee adoption, MMB brings to the Board of Directors its
unique perspective on the opportunities and challenges for many
important industry stakeholders," said John E. Osborne II, Chairman of
the Board for the Zigbee Alliance and Vice President IoT, Sales and
Marketing at LEEDARSON.
"MMB's own growth in the time they've been Zigbee Alliance members
represents the opportunities for companies that embrace open, global
technologies, and the momentum that is attracting companies from across
the industry to collaborate on a more unified and interoperable IoT."
"MMB Networks has been a significant leader in the Zigbee Alliance for
more than ten years, and not only demonstrates exceptional expertise in
the technologies driving the IoT, but also has an enthusiastic vision
for its potential, passionately advocating for both innovators and
users," said Tobin Richardson (News - Alert), President and CEO, Zigbee Alliance. "MMB
has been instrumental in the development of Zigbee and Dotdot
specifications, the Alliance's liaison with the Thread
Group, and in promoting the Alliance's vision of unifying the IoT
through open, global standards. Their addition to our Board of Directors
further strengthens our capacity to deliver on that vision."
MMB Networks joins Comcast,
Huawei,
Itron
Inc., The
Kroger Co., Landis+Gyr,
LEEDARSON,
Legrand
Group, Midea
Group, NXP
Semiconductors, Philips
Lighting, Schneider
Electric, Silicon
Labs, SmartThings,
Somfy,
Texas
Instruments and Wulian
on the Zigbee Alliance Board of Directors.
For more information about the Zigbee Alliance, its Board of Directors,
general membership, and benefits of joining the Alliance, visit www.zigbee.org.
ABOUT MMB NETWORKS
MMB Networks' mission is to accelerate innovation and adoption in the
IoT. We work with leading innovators and major brands to solve their
complex connectivity challenges. Our hardware, software, and expertise -
powered by MMB's RapidConnect interoperability platform - enables
customers to rapidly integrate wireless connectivity and
interoperability into IoT products, so they can focus resources on
innovating and creating unique value for their users. MMB's Zigbee and
Dotdot portfolio includes wireless modules, gateways, embedded software,
and development tools that have enabled customers to create products
across a number of markets, including utility and smart energy, solar,
commercial lighting, and smart home.
ABOUT ZIGBEE ALLIANCE
The Zigbee Alliance is the foundation and future of the IoT. Established
in 2002, our wide-ranging global membership collaborates to create and
evolve universal open standards for the products transforming the way we
live, work and play. With our members' deep and diverse expertise,
robust certification programs, and a full suite of open IoT solutions,
we are leading the movement toward a more intuitive, imaginative, and
useful world.
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