Initiative to give Zigbee lead in smart home interoperability
Members of the workgroup include Amazon, Comcast, Exegin, Kwikset, Landis+Gyr, LEEDARSON, Legrand, MMB Networks, NXP, OSRAM, Schneider Electric, Silicon Labs and Somfy. Their aim will be to improve interoperability between IoT devices and major. The result of the effort will be a set of features at Zigbee’s application and network layers to be incorporated into Zigbee 3.1, which will be released later this year.
The All Hubs Initiative is a list of features that will contribute to the core Zigbee roadmap with updates to the Zigbee specification that will see it continue to meet diverse market needs, while improving interoperability. These improvements establish a method for hubs to communicate supported and required features to new devices on their networks, and how those devices should configure themselves appropriately. They also further standardize the process of commissioning and operating Zigbee devices based on the best practices and real-world experience of Alliance member companies.
Zigbee 3.1 will be backwards compatible with Zigbee 3.0 certified devices and hubs. Some ecosystems however are participating in “early implementations” of the All Hubs Initiative’s features and may request device vendors support these features as part of their “Works With” programs, ahead of the formal launch of Zigbee 3.1.
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