Thread Group Broadens Its Focus into Commercial Buildings
Networking solution will address uses beyond the connected home
SAN RAMON, Calif. — The Thread Group has announced its intention to expand the Thread networking protocol beyond the connected home and into the commercial building and professional sectors. The group said it will continue its efforts to drive adoption of the Thread networking specification for the connected home, and will leverage this technology for the commercial building and professional sectors by adding extensions to the existing specification. The new extensions will address use cases such as enterprise security and commissioning options, and enabling and managing large Thread subnets.
The Thread Group was formed to develop an IP-based reliable, low-power, secure, and scalable mesh networking solution to be the foundation upon which any application layer can run. The group initially focused its efforts on the connected home and — with the successful release of the Thread 1.1 specification — numerous members and other alliances have expressed interest in deploying Thread into adjacent markets. With this expansion, the group will continue its focus on low power mesh-IP solutions, broadening its scope to enable to new use cases both inside the home and beyond.