Sigma Joins OCF in Effort to Include Z-Wave as Part of Future IoT Device Standard

Sigma Designs joined the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) to ensure interoperability between Z-Wave and OCF devices and to help define a standard for future OCF IoT devices, it announced. In August, Sigma released the Z-Wave specification publicly to give cloud service developers, gateway manufacturers, tech enthusiasts and makers access to the Z-Wave interoperability layer for development of smart home applications, said the company. Developers can create plug-ins for connections through OCF and cloud-based services to work directly with Z-Wave products and gateways, it said. Public Z-Wave includes access to the Z-Wave interoperability layer, the application program interface, the specification for Z-Wave over IP, Z-Wave middleware software products and Z-Wave’s S2 security application framework, it said. OCF “complements our direction to standardize and simplify the IoT smart home market for an open, unified method of accessing all IoT devices,” said Raoul Wijgergangs, vice president-Z-Wave at Sigma Designs. Z-Wave has an installed base of more than 70 million devices worldwide, chipmaker Sigma said.