Thread protocol stack comes with powerful development tools
The Thread stack offers developers the fastest path to developing Thread-compliant products for the IoT including thermostats, wireless sensor networks, smoke/carbon monoxide detectors, connected lighting devices, control panels, wireless access points and gateways.
Thread technology fills a critical gap in the IoT ecosystem by providing the industry’s first standards-based, low-power mesh networking solution based on Internet Protocol (IP), enabling reliable, secure and scalable Internet connectivity for battery-powered devices in the connected home.
“Thread is poised to become one of the leading mesh networking technologies for the connected home, with many device manufacturers aligning with Thread technology this year and planning to roll out Thread-enabled products in 2016,” said Mareca Hatler, director of research at ON World Inc. “As a primary architect of both ZigBee and Thread software and an industry leader in standards-based mesh networking, Silicon Labs is positioned to play a prominent role in advancing Thread technology throughout the connected home ecosystem.”
Silicon Labs offers the industry’s broadest portfolio of mesh networking SoCs and a common development platform for both ZigBee and Thread solutions. The combination of its Thread stack, EM35xx wireless SoC platform, and hardware and software tools provides developers with a seamless migration path from ZigBee to Thread via over-the-air (OTA) upgrades. The company’s hardware and software roadmap will enable multi-protocol, multi-band 2.4 GHz and sub-GHz wireless connectivity for the IoT.
The Thread stack from Silicon Labs offers a simple, secure and scalable way to wirelessly interconnect hundreds of connected home devices and to seamlessly bridge those devices to the Internet. Thread software provides a self-healing, IPv6-based mesh network capable of scaling to 250+ nodes with no single point of failure. The protocol provides extensive support for “sleepy” end nodes to enable years of low-energy operation using a single battery as well as simplified commissioning. Users can easily add nodes to a network using a smartphone or browser. The Thread stack uses banking-class, end-to-end security to join nodes to the network and proven AES-128 cryptography to secure all networking transactions.
Silicon Labs offers a comprehensive suite of development and debugging tools to accelerate the introduction of Thread-compliant products. Its AppBuilder tool simplifies and accelerates the development of IP-based mesh networking applications. AppBuilder enables developers to easily configure mesh networking applications for Thread protocol using the company’s application framework, which isolates application code with a set of easy-to-use call backs and plugins, making the customer’s software portable and reusable across supported wireless SoCs in Silicon Labs’ portfolio. Further a powerful Desktop Network Analyzer tool is available, which, unlike traditional wireless sniffers, provides complete visibility of all wireless networking activity by using the unique packet trace port available in the company’s mesh networking SoCs.
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