2021
December
14

Expanding the IoT Tapestry – Thread Group’s 2021 Wrap Up

By Sujata Neidig, VP Marketing for Thread Group / Director of Wireless Connectivity Marketing & Standards for NXP

With year-end looming on the horizon, I always like to pause and reflect on the good work and many milestones we together achieve as the Thread Group. It was another year of virtual meetings, which on one hand was disappointing and more of the same, but on the other challenged us to get creative...

2021
November
10

AMAZON AND SAMSUNG SMARTTHINGS JOIN THREAD GROUP BOARD OF DIRECTORS

By Thread Group

Thread Group’s commitment to improving people’s experience in smart homes and buildings relies on our members, who represent companies across the IoT spectrum. That’s why we’re excited to announce that both Amazon and Samsung SmartThings have joined the Thread Group’s B...

2021
July
26

Typical Thread Network Topologies - Smart Homes with Matter & Commercial Buildings

By Jorg Kennis, Neovate Innovation Partners

Let’s dive a bit deeper in what makes up the topology of a typical network that deploys Thread devices. We start off by explaining the different types of Thread devices on a network, and then go into a bit more detail of the smart home and commercial building networks respectively. Si...

2021
July
15

The Value and Benefits of Thread Certification

By Tom Sciorilli, Director of Certification, Thread Group and Brent Brooks, Director, Sales & Strategic Marketing, MMB Networks

In the years since Thread V1.1 certification launched, the landscape has changed in many exciting ways, as members new and old have seen the promise of Thread technology and proposed enhancements to make it the “go-to” choice for many residential and commercial use cases. As the specific...

2021
May
27

Thread, Matter, And CHIP – This Glossary Will Quickly Bring You Up To Speed

By Jorg Kennis, Neovate Innovation Partners

A lot has been happening lately in the world of connected homes and buildings concerning the technologies on which they are based. We see a pattern of growing collaboration between various companies and organizations as well as efforts to increase both convergence and interoperability between va...

2021
April
20

The Open Ecosystem of Thread and Project CHIP - Advantages for the Commercial Smart Building Market

By Jorg Kennis, Neovate Innovation Partners

[Note: Project CHIP is now known as Matter]

With the Project CHIP (Connected Home over IP) standard development in progress, and the first wave of products based on this standard expected to arrive on the market by the end of the year, interest is growing within a large number of markets and industries. Not only the consumer market, but also the commercial and industrial markets are following and contributing to the developments, and with good reasons.