2020
March
02

What does Project CHIP mean for Thread in Commercial?

By Jorg Kennis, OSRAM Standardization Office

[Note: Project CHIP is now known as Matter]

What is Project CHIP?

In December 2019, Amazon, Apple, Google and the Zigbee Alliance announced the start of Project CHIP (“Connected Home over IP”, sometimes referred to as “Commercial and Home over IP”) that aims to create a unified standard for communication between smart home devices. Its aim is to simplify development of smart home devices by ensuring that products which conform to the new standard will work with leading ecosystems, such as Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Google’s Assistant and Comcast’s Xfinity.