Connected home device makers can already see the guts of future products that will use the Thread wireless protocol. Now’s a good time to get those going, judging from a new Internet of Things ...

The Zigbee Alliance and Thread Group has announced the availability of the Dotdot specification over Thread’s IP network. This is the first time developers can confidently use an established, open, ...

The still-fragmented internet of things is slowly converging on protocols that may someday work in both homes and enterprises. The latest move to standardize how IoT devices talk to each other is a ...

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OCF and Thread both address security and interoperability within the IoT, enabling seamless communications for both device-to-device and device-to-cloud. Thread's mesh networks are reliable, with no ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the thing that everyone seems to want to talk about. But before it becomes a real thing, it seems that it will be thing that creates groups and consortia and all sorts ...

SAN RAMON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Thread Group, an alliance addressing IoT convergence, security, power, and architecture challenges at the network layer, confirmed several new components from ...

I’ve been involved in the Internet of Things (IoT) decades before the term was created. In the 1970s, I got excited about X-10, the then-dominant technology for automating lights, and a mechanical ...

Two pieces in the complicated puzzle of smart-home options will snap together later this year when the ZigBee Alliance starts certifying devices that use the Thread protocol for networking. The ...

Google-owned Nest was one of the first big players in the Internet of Things business. As such, it fell to them to create their own protocol for networking and smart home automation that devices ...

However, the IoT industry's fragmentation is “somewhat artificial,” Silicon Labs CEO Tyson Tuttle told us. Everyone in the industry wants to build its own IoT “ecosystems” and “gateways,” and too many ...

Nest has launched OpenThread, a version of the connected home networking protocol used in the firm's products available to the open-source community. Announced on Wednesday, the company said the ...