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Nordic and Siemens Solidify Support for Thread Group; Move Underscores Thread's Value to Commercial and Smart Home IoT Players Currently Deploying IP-based Wireless NetworksThe Thread Group today announced several milestones supporting its mission to provide an interoperable foundation to extend the power of the Internet to the low-power wireless devices that make up the Internet of Things. Siemens Building Technologies and Nordic Semiconductors have both increased their commitment in the Thread Group, and joined its board of directors, further expanding the alliance's presence in the global commercial and smart home marketplace. "We chose to increase our commitment to Thread because it solves commercial building spaces' biggest challenge: technology silos plagued with minimal interoperation," noted Klaus Waechter, standardization manager, Siemens (News - Alert) Building Technologies. "Thread wireless connectivity enables more flexibility in functionality planning, better system features, easier maintenance and lower cost. Because it's built on IP, it offers robust end-to-end security measures, and the mesh architecture makes it possible for devices from multiple manufacturers to connect seamlessly. Siemens supports Thread's effort to unify the fragmented connected device industry and unlock new markets." The proven, secure and already widely-deployed Thread specification is currently in use for residential IoT applications. With its powerful features for commercial applications, it scales to reliably connect thousands of wireless products in commercial grade buildings. "The Thread Group is expanding beyond smart-home applications; it's gaining traction with major product vendors while expanding its collaboration with other standards organizations," said Pär Håkansson, Nordic Semiconductor's product marketing manager responsible for smart home strategies and products. "The smart home is a key business segment for Nordic and its sponsor membership of the Thread Group will strengthen both organizations' leadership in low-power wireless technology." Industry Collaboration Recognizing that developers of IoT, connected devices and buildings need to assemble an entire solution, the Thread Group partners with other standards organizations and alliances to provide an interoperable foundation for all devices connected to the Internet of Things. KNX and Thread Group are working together to provide a solution incorporating Thread's IP-based networking layer with KNX's well-established and interoperable application that developers can easily implement into a product. KNX has chosen Thread as the low-power wireless communication protocol for KNX IoT. The Thread Group's current liaison partners include Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA (News - Alert)), EEBus, Fairhair Alliance, KNX, Linaro, Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) and Zigbee Alliance. These liaison agreements create a foundation for organizations to explore opportunities to collaborate on technical specifications and network management in order to advance connectivity and interoperability. Additionally, Thread's liaison partners will collaborate to achieve the common goal of one-stop certification with the ability to exchange relevant documents with intellectual property protection for each providing organization. Thread Ecosystem and Resources Available Globally With Thread, product and platform vendors deliver the high-quality, interoperable user experiences needed to drive growth, while its IP foundation allows vendors to maintain a direct connection to their device - and their customers. As a result of this compelling value proposition:
Thread Honors Home and Commercial IoT Innovation Thread Group's Innovation Enabler Program gives innovative young companies the opportunity to play a role in defining connected homes and buildings through access to Thread's technology and the consortium's membership. Recent winners include IPv6home.se and iOTA World. About the Thread Group Formed in 2013, the non-profit Thread Group is focused on making Thread the foundation for the internet of things in homes and commercial buildings. Built on open standards, Thread is a low power wireless networking protocol that enables direct, end-to-end, secure and scalable connectivity between IoT devices, mobile devices, and the internet. And, because Thread is IP-based, it seamlessly integrates with many environments, apps, devices and clouds. The Thread Group provides a rigorous certification program to ensure device interoperability and a positive user experience. Thread is backed by industry-leading companies including Arm, Nest Labs, Nordic Semiconductors, NXP Semiconductors, OSRAM, Qualcomm, Schneider Electric (News - Alert), Siemens, Silicon Labs, Somfy and Yale Security. For more, please visit http://www.threadgroup.org, follow us on Twitter (News - Alert) @TheThreadGroup, and connect on LinkedIn.
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