Commercial Connectivity: Challenges and Solutions

Back in December 2019, the Zigbee Alliance set out to create a unifying standard for the smart-home industry. Project Connected Home over IP is a Working Group within the Zigbee Alliance, which develops and promotes the adoption of a new connectivity standard to increase compatibility among smart-home products. Now, it is announcing a team dedicated to the development and promotion of the standard for commercial markets—and it couldn’t come a moment too soon.

For those of you who might not know, the Zigbee Alliance is an umbrella of open-ended interoperable solutions, with the mission to help smart products connect and interact with each other to fuel IoT (Internet of Things) possibilities. The goals are anchored in the principles of open and interoperability.

The recently formed Commercial Strategy Group includes global commercial solutions leaders from various industries and geographies and continues to chart next steps to converge on IP-based connectivity within buildings and facilities.

As we have talked about here and over on Constructech, the commercial market has several nuisances. Chiefly, many players in the commercial market tend to operate in silos. I recently chatted with Zigbee Alliance Board member Mak Joshi, global director, strategy, innovation, and standards, Schneider Electric, about this very trend, and as he says to me, “The commercial environment really screams for interoperability.”

Here the specification will need to cater to the needs of various people in the commercial value chain including installers, facility managers, OEMs (original-equipment manufacturers), owners, system integrator, and more.

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