Connected Home Over IP sets the standard for smart home

Google, Amazon, and Apple participated in Connected Home Over IP, a working group for developing a new smart home connection standard managed by the Zigbee Alliance.

Zigbee is a standard for building wireless sensor networks. Although a standard mainly used for IoT devices, Connected Homeover IP is developed as an Internet protocol-based standard different from the existing ZigBee protocol. In the case of smart home and IoT products, communication standards such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are different, and there are separate hub products for connecting and controlling them.

In recent years, herbal products fixed to specific brands are disappearing, but the fragmentation of the manufacturing standard ecosystem remains the same. For example, when a house is newly constructed or renovated, even if various products are equipped to make a smart home, a separate setting or operation is required if the standard is not considered, and in the end, it can be a result that is rather inconvenient.

Connected Home Over IP unifies the smart home connection standard based on royalty connection using Internet protocols. This eliminates the need for users to remember the compatibility between vendors. On the other hand, companies can simplify product development and develop low-cost. Zigbee Alliance board members IKEA, Samsung SmartThings, and Philips Lighting also participate in this standard.

It is still in the stage of the announcement of the establishment of the Working Group, so it is not clear when and what products will appear specifically. The important thing in this announcement is that the three major Internet IT companies have started developing standards. If these three companies adopt the same technology at once and numerous companies pour out smart home products that support this technology, all home appliances and equipment can be easily controlled from products such as iPhone, Android phone, HomePod, Echo, and Nest mini without detailed settings. Can be. It may be possible to realize a true smart home. Related information can be found here .