2019
February
25

Improve Thread adoption in your ecosystem with OpenThread Border Router

By Jeff Bumgardner OpenThread Technical Writer at Google

Thread is a low-power, wireless mesh networking protocol based on IPv6. It enables direct device-to-device, device-to-mobile, and device-to-cloud connectivity. As an IP network, Thread supports one or more concurrent application layers to securely communicate end-to-end across other link technologie...

2018
December
17

How Thread Can Work Seamlessly With Bluetooth For Commissioning And Operation

By Jorg Kennis and Jos Bruins, OSRAM Standardization Office

Commissioning devices to a Thread-based network using Bluetooth has many benefits. Thread is based on the widely used IEEE 802.15.4 wireless radio standard which was specifically designed for extremely low power operation. All devices on a Thread network form a mesh, which extends the range of the n...

2018
October
09

OpenAIS: Driving Forward IoT for Smart Lighting

By Alin Lazar

Over the past three years, a consortium of leading European companies worked on defining and implementing a set of Open Architectures for Intelligent Solid-State Lighting (OpenAIS for short). The OpenAIS project, partly funded by the European Union within the Horizon 2020 program, has showcased how ...

2018
August
23

IPv6-based Thread networks in an IPv4-based enterprise network

By Thread Group

When defining requirements for building automation, network designers want to make sure that their solution of choice operates well within the existing network. At the same time, they need assurance that the solution is both future proof and scalable. This is also true for developers defining smart ...

2018
June
25

Like Wi-Fi for the IoT: How being application agnostic sets Thread apart from the rest.

By Jorg Kennis and Jos Bruins, OSRAM Standardization Office

Numerous wired and wireless solutions for connecting IoT devices in a home or building exist on the market today. Often, these technologies form a full stack covering the physical connection through the application and control protocols that run on top of it. Though this might sound good for interop...

2018
February
13

Particle Mesh: Leveraging Thread to Unlock Real IoT

By David Scheltema, Particle

"IoT is hard." So much so, that a whopping 75 percent of all IoT projects fail. There are a lot of reasons why this is the case, but often it stems from not having the right technology for the challenge of building connected products. At Particle, we believe that real IoT is absolutely achievab...