Z-Wave Alliance Labs Competition Winners Could Have Product Featured at CES

The Z-Wave Alliance began taking applications for the 2016 Z-Wave Labs competition, which this year adds a chance to have a product featured at CES 2017, the alliance emailed us Tuesday. The accelerator program gives winners with an IoT product or service design access to the Z-Wave Alliance ecosystem, partners and resources along with Z-Wave IoT-ready development kits to “jumpstart their product roadmap and get their IoT product to market,” said the alliance. New winners are selected each month by the Z-Wave Labs program from areas including residential, commercial, automotive, healthcare, energy, security and aging-in-place. The competition is open to any startup or entrepreneur who wants to use the Z-Wave wireless platform in its IoT offering, it said. In addition to receiving a yearlong full membership to the Z-Wave Alliance, Z-Wave Labs winners will have the chance to be featured in the Z-Wave booth in the smart home exhibit at Sands Expo at CES 2017, it said.