Is There Any Way to Avoid Standards Wars in the Emerging Internet of Things?
[Philip Lelyveld comment; Consortia developing and publishing standards around a rapidly evolving technology is a waste of time. What they CAN do is pool their efforts and drive markets towards standardization, which can be codified later. Each of these groups is trying to do there for their narrowly defined portion of the Internet of Things ecosystem. It will be a venn diagram-driven battle later on. (Does anybody want to get with me and develop a consulting pitch around these ideas?)]
He points to three industry-wide groups that are each attempting to establish their own IoT standards—one of which is the IEEE, publisher of IEEE Spectrum. The other groups, small consortia of companies with IoT interests are: the Open Interconnect Consortium, which includes Intel, Atmel, Broadcom, Dell, Samsung, and Wind River; and the Thread Group, comprising Nest Labs, Samsung, Yale Security, Silicon Labs, Freescale Semiconductor, ARM, and Big Ass Fans. (No, that was not a typo. Samsung has decided to hedge its bets by joining both of the corporate groups.)
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