The Thread Group, the consortium founded by Nest, Samsung, ARM, Silicon Labs and more, has announced that Thread, its wireless networking protocol for smart homes, has released specifications that ...

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A little over a decade ago, the big buzzword in home tech was “convergence.” Internet browsers started appearing in refrigerator doors while a host of new companies cropped up offering in-home “media ...

Thread is an open - standard wireless communication protocol. It is designed to integrate seamlessly into networks, connecting many wireless products in buildings. Unlike other protocols, Thread does ...

Google-owned Nest was one of the first big players in the Internet of Things business. As such, it fell to them to create their own protocol for networking and smart home automation that devices ...

Thread is the next big thing you probably haven’t heard about, and may never witness in action — but it will likely bring massive change to technology you interact with on a daily basis. In simple ...

The massive growth of the smart home market has led to problems with competing standards and protocols. The World Economic Forum estimates that more than 130 million households owned a smart home ...