Connected Home over IP
Google, Amazon, Apple, etc. working together to develop connected home over IP device compatibility.
Smart home products are being installed in record numbers. It doesn’t just seem that more and more things are being connected to the internet, data shows they actually are. The preferred way to have a connected home is over IP or Internet Protocol.
The problem is compatibility.
The problem is, all those different devices don’t always talk to one another. The current state of the industry is that you have to open a different app to interface with each device. Automation brands like Crestron, Elan, Savant, Control 4, URC, etc. can talk to multiple brands at once but that’s like using a translator to communicate instead of speaking the same language.
The fix is to develop a standard.
Haas Entertainment and other leaders in the custom integration industry share a belief that smart home devices should be secure, reliable and seamless to use. To achieve that goal, larger companies including Apple, Google, Amazon and the Zigbee Alliance are developing a standard for future devices to communicate with one-another. If they can pull it off, our integrated systems will work together without many of the limitations they currently have. That will lower costs and reduce installation times. More and more homes & businesses will begin to use smart technology and the cycle continues.
What is the Zigbee Alliance? ZigBee is an IEEE 802.15.4-based specification for a suite of high-level communication protocols used to create personal area networks with small, low-power digital radios, such as for home automation.
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