January 8, 2019    |   back to news

Together, the Zigbee Alliance and Thread Group have reached a critical milestone in IoT interoperability with the completion of the Dotdot 1.0 specification and announcement of the Dotdot over Thread certification program. For the first time, developers of smart products can confidently use a mature, open, and certifiable interoperability language over a low-power IP network. This will reduce product development risk and roadblocks, enable new IoT applications, and improve the consumer experience by reducing IoT fragmentation.

"The integration of Dotdot over Thread moves the industry forward by providing interoperability across different home networks through the Dotdot application framework," said Tom Kerber, Senior Director, IoT Strategy and Custom Research, Parks Associates. "This kind of cooperation across the industry, vendors, and standards organizations is critical to the widespread interoperability-and success-of smart home devices."

Bringing the Internet to the Internet of Things

Today's smart devices can struggle to deliver a seamless experience when they speak different languages (or in technical terms, use different "application layers"). The Zigbee Alliance solved this by incorporating an open, common application layer that seamlessly connects products from many different vendors and powers popular smart home products like Comcast Xfinity Home Security and the Amazon Echo Plus and the new Echo Show. Dotdot takes that universal device language and enables it to work over Thread's low-power IP network-extending this same proven approach to applications that benefit from IP. With Dotdot over Thread, smart home vendors can ensure the reliable user experiences needed to drive growth, while IP networking allows vendors to maintain a direct connection to their device and an ongoing relationship with their customers.

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Source: Zigbee Alliance