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NEWSLETTER Q3-4 2019

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

With great satisfaction and enthusiasm I reflect on our extremely successful—and second largest ever—members meeting in beautiful Zug, Switzerland, hosted by Siemens.

In Zug, we had great engagement and collaboration through an array of exciting demos from current and future Built on Thread certified products and solutions, seeing hints at the future of Thread technology.

The demos collectively reprised and reinvigorated the theme of "many apps, many use cases, many devices, and many clouds: one network, no hubs", with several vendors demonstrating different devices and applications running on a single Thread mesh formed by multiple vendors, among them, Google, with their Nest Hub Max, WiFi Router, and WiFi Point their newly Thread-certified products. Another demo, the Galeries Lafayette / BLUEGRIoT connected hanger, representing the largest, worldwide single mesh deployment of Thread. I had the pleasure of seeing this real-world deployment in person on the Champs Elysee, at the Galleries Lafayette in Paris. When we talk about making Thread real, demos like these are as real as it gets!

As we ease into 2020, we look forward to continued momentum and adoption of Thread 1.1 in certified products and solutions, finalizing Thread 1.2 along with its Bluetooth and Commercial Extensions into a fully-fledged certification program.

I look forward to seeing you in Austin, Texas at the next Members Meeting, sponsored by Silicon Labs, April 21-23, 2020!

Best Regards,
Grant Erickson
President
Thread Group

IN THE NEWS	Google's New Nest Mini And Nest Wi-Fi Up The Smart Home Smarts Forbes October 15, 2019 Podcast: How IoT Will Change Your Sales Job Stacey on IoT September 13, 2019 Nest Hub Max Is First 'Built On Thread' Certified Device, Works With Existing Nest Products 9to5Google September 11, 2019

PRESS RELEASES	OCF-Over-Thread Is Now Available To Simplify Highly Secure, Scalable, Low Power IP-Based IoT Product Development November 18, 2019 The Thread Group Certifies Google Nest Hub Max As World's First Publicly-Available 'Built On Thread ' Device September 11, 2019

NOTABLE TWEETS	LIVE from Switzerland CH Multi-company product and #Thread technology demos including those from @Google, @Blue_Griot, @cascoda, @DEKRA_Cert_USA, @zumtobelgroup, @TXInstruments, @OsramCOM, @KiraleTech and more! #IoT pic.twitter.com/ay1A0VI1FM Connects with #Thread The LARGEST number of connected devices on a single #Thread network is displayed at the @Galeries_Laf, Paris. FUN FACT The @Blue_Griot Smart Hangers carries the BATMAN collection as part of this record setting Thread network. pic.twitter.com/BvGvBY4Ddt Top #IoT Tools and Technologies for #Developers, including #Thread member company @particle's hardware platform. For more #developer tools and offerings from #Thread members visit - https://lnkd.in/g8jhufw - https://lnkd.in/gCVS26Q - pic.twitter.com/Z1KcPzwAdg

Q3-4 HIGHLIGHTS

Hosted the second largest Members Meeting in Zug, Switzerland at Siemens
Launched the China landing page on the website
Hosted the Thread Technology Day in Taipei, Taiwan at UL
Acquired ten new Thread Group members
Certified eight new Thread-based products and solutions

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