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United States : Electrolux joins AllSeen Alliance to enable seamlessly connected appliances [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Electrolux, a global leader in appliances for home and professional use, today announced it has joined the AllSeen Alliance, the broadest Internet of Everything open-source project, as a Premier Member. Membership in this collaborative initiative is a key enabler for Electrolux to help realize the promise of this technology and use connectivity to enhance the experience and end result of everyday tasks. With the addition of Electrolux the AllSeen Alliance has grown to 63 total members since its creation in December 2013. The Alliance represents the largest and most diverse open source effort to advance the Internet of Everything, including top consumer electronics manufacturers, appliance makers, service providers, retailers, automotive and enterprise technology companies, innovative startups, developers and chipset manufacturers. Electrolux joins Haier, LG, Microsoft, Panasonic, Qualcomm Connected Experiences, Inc., Sharp, Silicon Image, Technicolor and TP-Link as Premier Members of the Alliance. Electrolux strongly believes that this technology, where appliances communicate with each other, with consumers and with other devices, offers a great potential to develop products and services that improve how we cook our food and clean our homes. For instance, we are working on solutions for smarter cooking, which will leverage our professional capabilities to help people achieve great tasting food with minimum effort, said Jan Brockmann, Chief Technology Officer, Electrolux. We also recognize that making this reality requires that major players from across industries come together and make sure devices and systems can work together seamlessly regardless of brand. The AllSeen Alliance is working to overcome this challenge, and we re proud to, as a premier member, be the first appliances-only company to choose this collaborative approach. Members are working to advance the Internet of Everything s promise to seamlessly connect devices in businesses and homes by collaboratively building out an open source software framework, called AllJoyn . Through open source code that is available today and updated through contributions by members and the open source community, AllJoyn acts as a universal translator for objects and devices to interact regardless of brand and other infrastructure considerations commercially deployed today. AllSeen Alliance members believe widespread adoption of the Internet of Everything is dependent on allowing disparate devices to autonomously discover and interact with nearby products regardless of their underlying proprietary technology or communications protocols. (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |