Tag: Z-Wave Alliance
Z-Wave Alliance announces release of ZWLR specification for Europe
February 29, 2024SSN Staff
BEAVERTON, Ore. –The Z-Wave Alliance, a standards development organization for smart home and Z-Wave technology, has announced that the specification for Z-Wave Long Range (ZWLR) for the European market has been completed and will be made available to member companies soon.
“From the moment we announced ZWLR for the North American market, the Alliance has been hard at work to make the spec available to our valued members in Europe,” said Avi Rosenthal, chairman of the board,...
Z-Wave Alliance starts 2024 with new members, updated Ed materials, and CES 2024 Presence
January 9, 2024SSN Staff
BEAVERTON, Ore. – The Z-Wave Alliance has announced a burst of updates including a new member, availability of in-demand educational resources, and support for dozens of Z-Wave Alliance member companies at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2024.
The alliance’s newest member is OliverIQ (Venetian Expo Booth #51932). The group officially launched at CES 2024 with the debut of their Smart Home as a Service (SHaaS) platform.
“OliverIQ has joined the Z-Wave Alliance at the manufacturer...
Z-Wave Alliance offers additional silicon resource and certification house
August 16, 2023SSN Staff
BEAVERTON, Ore. – The Z-Wave Alliance has launched Trident IoT, a technology and engineering company focused on simplifying RF development and decreasing time-to-market for connected device manufacturers.
A standards development organization dedicated to advancing the smart home and Z-Wave Technology, the Z-Wave Alliance has announced that Trident IoT will be a direct supplier of Z-Wave silicon chips and modules, offering product design and development services. According...
Z-Wave Alliance announces new membership tiers
May 19, 2023SSN Staff
BEAVERTON, OR – Standards development organization the Z-Wave Alliance has announced two new levels of membership offerings.
The Z-Wave Alliance said that these new tiers were created to broaden the organization’s reach, foster innovation, and add opportunities for membership involvement that supports the growth of the alliance. The new tiers consist of Individual Academic Member, which is for individual members of the teaching staff of a college, university, or similar higher...
Kaadas launches expansion into North America
January 5, 2023SSN Staff
LAS VEGAS – Chinese smart lock brand Kaadas showcased its line of smart lock solutions at CES 2023 in launching its expansion into North America.
The Kaadas Group announced in a release that the rapidly growing company is adding employees throughout North America, and that Kaadas North America will be operating a warehouse in Southern California with a complete, full product showroom. The branch is set to offer traditional electronic locks as well as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth,...
Smarter Choices, Smarter Homes
January 19, 2022Cory Harris, Editor
Smart home devices have become commonplace in the residential landscape for the better part of a decade now.
Streaming devices, TVs, appliances, thermostats, and of course, security devices such as Wi-fi cameras, video doorbells and door locks are all considered to be “smart” in the sense that they can be controlled to perform tasks around the house that offer convenience, peace of mind and cost savings to homeowners.
To offer a clearer picture of the current smart home device landscape,...
Z-Wave Alliance releases 2022 State of the Ecosystem report
January 5, 2022SSN Staff
LAS VEGAS—The Z-Wave Alliance, the standards development organization dedicated to advancing the smart home and Z-Wave technology, announced the release of its third-annual Z-Wave State of the Ecosystem Report.
The newly available report, fielded in cooperation with Interpret, leverages a mix of syndicated data to provide a baseline of the overall smart home market landscape as well as data collected from a custom quantitative survey of 1,500 U.S.- based smart home device owners. The report...
Silicon Labs and Z-Wave Alliance expand smart home ecosystem
December 19, 2019SSN Staff
AUSTIN, Texas—Silicon Labs and the Z-Wave Alliance announced plans to open the Z-Wave Specification as a ratified, multi-source wireless standard, available to all silicon and stack vendors for development. Semiconductor and software suppliers will be able to join the Z-Wave ecosystem, contribute to future advancements of the smart home standard, and develop and supply sub-GHz Z-Wave radio devices and software stacks. The Z-Wave Alliance will expand to a standards development organization for...
Smarter consumers, smarter homes
April 19, 2017Paul Ragusa
LOWELL, Mass.—Consumers see more clearly how smart home devices can directly benefit their lives, and are planning to purchase more smart home devices in the future, according to a consumer survey commissioned by PlumChoice Inc., a provider of premium technical services for IoT and cloud brands, and the Z-Wave Alliance, an open consortium of leading global companies deploying Z-Wave.
According to this second annual consumer benchmark survey, titled, “2016: Year of the Smart Device,”...
The future of IoT: Taming security's wild west
March 29, 2017Spencer Ives
DELRAY BEACH, Fla.—A lot is being done when it comes to ensuring that IoT devices are cybersecure, integrated and valuable to end users. Five panelists at a TechSec Solutions session explored exactly what the industry is doing to rein in the technology.
Paul Ragusa, editor of Security Systems News and the panel's moderator, asked each of the panelists to say what the term IoT means to them.
“The Internet of Things is a broad [term],” Dorrier Coleman, co-founder and CTO...