The ZigBee Alliance, a non-profit association of companies creating open, global standards that define the Internet of Things (IoT) for use in consumer, commercial and industrial applications, announced it is working with the Thread Group on an end-to-end solution for IP-based IoT networks. The solution will become part of the ZigBee Alliance’s comprehensive set of product development specifications, technologies, and branding and certification programs.
Zigbee Alliance和Thread Group于2015年4月建立了联络协议，以探索将Zigbee广泛部署的应用程序库带到新开发的线程网络协议的机会。这两个组织现在已经完成了他们的评估，Zigbee联盟已经开始开发一个合并的解决方案，该解决方案将简化产品开发，改善互操作性，并最终增强消费者在各种智能IOT应用程序中连接的家庭中的体验。
“With this liaison agreement, we are bringing the industry’s most advanced and proven low-power networking layer experience to a complete and interoperable, end-to-end solution using our consolidated ZigBee Common Applications Library,” said Tobin Richardson, President and CEO of the ZigBee Alliance. “Building on more than a dozen years of experience in standards and ecosystem creation, we are now taking an important step toward IoT unification by adding compatibility with the Thread networking stack and its IP underpinnings to the ZigBee Alliance’s solutions portfolio. This portfolio spans all network layers and critical energy-harvesting and other foundational technologies, and is supported by all necessary interoperability and marketing solutions.”
The ZigBee Alliance will incorporate support for the Thread Group’s networking layer with the comprehensive ZigBee Applications Layer, which now consolidates all previous market-specific ZigBee device profiles into a single, unified library. The goal is to release a complete solution, including an end-to-end certification program, during the third quarter of 2016 that meets the market’s desire for IP-based low-power radio frequency communications in the Smart Home and other IoT markets.
“ Zigbee Alliance and Thread Group正在朝着减少物联网行业的分裂迈出一大步，”线索集团兼技术产品营销经理总裁Chris Boross说。“将Zigbee的应用程序层带到启用线程的设备将简化产品开发并增加互操作性，从而鼓励线程生态系统（和连接的家）蓬勃发展。我们的组织共享许多相同的成员，我们期待与Zigbee Alliance合作，为市场提供了互联房屋的组合解决方案。”
“The ZigBee Alliance is known for the creation and delivery of robust standards, testing, and certification programs for the wireless Internet of Things,” said Skip Ashton, vice president of software with Silicon Labs. “As a founding member of both organizations, we are excited to support this program with Thread as it is in strong demand from our customers and allows them to take their ZigBee-based products into even broader markets where Thread has done some important foundational work at the networking layer.”
“As a strong contributing member of both organizations, we’re excited and supportive of this announcement, and believe it will reduce uncertainty and accelerate adoption of IoT technologies by device vendors and consumers,” said Kevin Kraus, Director Product Management of Yale Security Inc. “We’re looking forward to delivering products to market based on this combined solution, and working with our ZigBee customers to access new markets.”
NXP的MicroController Business Line的MCU和Connectivity Products的执行总监Emmanuel Sambuis表示：“作为Zigbee和Thread的创始成员，我们将这些技术的结合是整个物联网市场的双赢。”“将线程的IP协议与Zigbee的开放，实地加强应用程序层配对为设备供应商提供了可互操作，可靠，端到端的解决方案，用于连接的家庭和其他物联网市场。NXP及其解决方案合作伙伴期待支持这种合并解决方案的开发和部署，使我们的客户能够建立下一代的连接产品。”
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