Zigbee Improves Smart Home Device Interop With Amazon, Comcast and Others
The Zigbee Alliance is removing some optional pieces from the standard to improve interoperability among such smart home devices, Marketing Director Ann Olivo-Shaw told us Thursday. “We got to a point with connecting certain devices that our member companies were…
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running into interoperability issues.” The “All Hubs Initiative” is driven by an alliance group of Amazon, Comcast, NXP, Osram, Silicon Labs and others, said last week's announcement. Olivo-Shaw said Samsung also was an important player. The alliance said IoT and smart home ecosystems “can vary in their supported features, business models, value propositions, customer experience expectations, security requirements, and other factors.” Such "flexibility can sometimes create challenges for device vendors trying to build and market products that meet the requirements of different ecosystems and earn their coveted 'Works With' badges -- and challenges for businesses and customers using those products across a number of hubs.”