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December 14, 2022 – HomeAV News, ISE, ISE News & Blogs, rAVe [PUBS], rAVe Europe, rAVe Europe News, RTA, 
The Z-Wave Alliance, the Standards Development Organization (SDO) dedicated to advancing the smart home and Z-Wave technology announced the completion of the Z-Wave Source Code project, which has been published and made available on GitHub to Alliance members. The Z-Wave Source Code Project opens the development of Z-Wave and enables members to contribute code to shape the future of the protocol under the supervision of the new OS Work Group (OSWG).
The goal of the project is to provide a “rich development environment that contains the relevant source code and sample applications to those seeking to play a direct role in the advancement of the Z-Wave standard.” The quality and interoperability of products utilizing Z-Wave Source Code will also be enforced by a new mandatory Silicon & Stack Certification program. Full Z-Wave certification will continue to test and certify for Z-Wave S2 security, network connectivity, range, battery life and interoperability including backward and forward compatibility.
As the Alliance worked to complete the Source Code project, Z-Wave experienced impressive growth achieving milestones such as the availability of Z-Wave Long Range (LR) certification, surpassing 4100 certified Z-Wave devices in the market, and seeing 90 million new Z-Wave devices enter the market since 2020.
In 2020, when Z-Wave Alliance announced that Silicon Labs was contributing the Z-Wave code to the organization, the Alliance was re-incorporated as an independently run, member-driven non-profit SDO. Over the past 20 months, technical working groups specific to features such as the physical layer working group (mac/PHY), networking layer working group, application layer working group (command class specification), and security working group have collaborated to complete the Z-Wave Source Code project.
Executed in beta testing and shared with members at the Z-Wave Member Summit, Exegin Technologies completed the porting of Z-Wave Source Code to third-party silicon. The operation is outlined in a blog on the Z-Wave Alliance website. The proof-of-concept network demonstrates how the Z-Wave Source Code package will provide developers and manufacturers with flexible implementations from controller (hub/bridge) to end devices. Further extrapolated, the implementation could be for both new controllers, such as Z-Wave/Matter compatible bridges, and for Z-Wave or Z-Wave/Matter end devices.
Silicon Labs, one of the primary code contributors to both Matter and Z-Wave, has developed a multi-protocol software development kit, the Unify SDK, for Matter-based hubs and bridges. The software tool provides for interoperability between the different wireless IoT protocols, including Z-Wave and Matter. The Unify SDK offers a how-to kit for manufacturers and developers to connect both new and legacy Z-Wave devices with new Matter devices.
“This is going to be an incredible year for the smart home industry and an exciting time for verticals we see growing including MDU, hospitality, energy, and insurance,” concluded Klein. “As an SDO, membership is the key to the future of Z-Wave technology. With a new BoD led by Amazon’s Jonathan Adams and John Osborne II who chaired Project CHIP, the industry will start to recognize and embrace all the shiny parts of Z-Wave.”
The Z-Wave Alliance is here: http://z-wavealliance.org
Gary Kayye
January 13, 2023 – AV Buyers.Club, ISE, ISE News & Blogs, News, rAVe [PUBS], rAVe Education, Rental [and Staging], RTA,
Logitech introduced Mevo Go, a new companion app in the Mevo ecosystem that provides creators with powerful features to experience the best solution in multicam streaming and recording. Mevo Go turns any iOS or Android device into a source for sending video, audio and screencasting to the Mevo Multicam app, empowering content creators with more […]
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Gary Kayye
January 13, 2023 – ISE, ISE News & Blogs, rAVe Europe, rAVe Europe News, RTA,
SoundTube Entertainment, manufacturer and creator of The Original Pendant Speaker, will feature a live demonstration of STNet Dante-compatible audio solutions at ISE 2023 in Barcelona, Spain on January 31 through February 3, 2023, stand 7-A400 in Fira Barcelona Gran Via. Most notably stand visitors can experience the plethora of Dante-enabled endpoint speakers that are available […]
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Gary Kayye
January 13, 2023 – ISE, ISE News & Blogs, rAVe Europe, rAVe Europe News, RTA,
AVIXA will host a packed program of education and networking for ProAV professionals at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2023 from Jan. 31 to Feb. 3 at the Fira Barcelona Gran Via. New this year, AVIXA has taken on the management of seven ISE conferences on topics from digital signage to live events, in addition to […]
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