12.18.2019

Amazon, Apple, Google, Zigbee Alliance and board members form working group to develop open standard for smart home devices

Seattle and Cupertino, Mountain View and Davis, California — Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance today announced a new working group that plans to develop and promote the adoption of a new, royalty-free connectivity standard to increase compatibility among smart home products, with security as a fundamental design tenet. Zigbee Alliance board member companies such as IKEA, Legrand, NXP Semiconductors, Resideo, Samsung SmartThings, Schneider Electric, Signify (formerly Philips Lighting), Silicon Labs, Somfy, and...

Amazon, Apple, Google, Zigbee Alliance and board members form working group to develop open standard for smart home devices