Smart home systems including the Google Assistant, Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and others have become a reality in everyday life, taking objects in the home online. Google, Apple and Amazon have announced their intention to collaborate so that smart home products will be able to “speak to each other” to standardize device utility.
Google, Apple, Amazon and the Zigbee Alliance, which includes IKEA, Legrand, NXP Semiconductors, Samsung, Signify and others, announced on Wednesday that will collaborate on a joint project aimed at creating a common standard for smart home devices.
The joint project will enable consumers to use devices from different companies on the same network, using an open-source and royalty-free software standard.
The new standard, which will be called “Project Connected Home over IP”, will be built off the back of Amazon’s Alexa Smart Home, Apple’s HomeKit, Google’s Weave and Zigbee Alliance’s Dotdot technologies.
The group said that it welcomes device manufacturers and developers to contribute to the project aimed to see any new protocols instantly compatible with all devices on the network.
The group said that a draft of the new standard protocol will be released in late 2020.
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