ZigBee, Thread Alliances Announce Successful Interoperability Demonstrations

The ZigBee Alliance and Thread Group demoed products running ZigBee’s language for smart devices on Thread networks, they announced Thursday. Among members of both organizations that demonstrated prototypes at the Thread's member meeting last month and that will show products in both organizations’ CES booths: MMB Networks, Nortek, NXP Semiconductors, Osram, P&G, Resolution Products, Schneider Electric, Silicon Labs, Somfy, Yale and Zen Thermostat, they said. The demos are a milestone in the groups’ liaison agreement toward an ecosystem of connected products that interoperate over Thread IP networks using the ZigBee language, they said.