SAN RAMON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Recognizing the need for a new and better way to connect products in the home, seven companies today announced that they’ve joined forces to form the Thread Group ...

SAN RAMON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Thread Group, an industry alliance enabling IoT convergence, and addressing challenges around security, energy footprint, and architecture at the network layer, ...

The Thread Group will be fixing one of the largest adoption issues of Matter as a smart home standard, by making Thread border routers work nicely as one larger network. One of the problems with using ...

As a smart home user, you've probably heard multiple mentions of Thread, Zigbee, and Matter from different companies, and ...

Google's Nest Labs is participating in a project to build a networking standard that could replace or supplement WiFi as billions of devices come online. Seven companies founded Thread and launched ...

I’ve been involved in the Internet of Things (IoT) decades before the term was created. In the 1970s, I got excited about X-10, the then-dominant technology for automating lights, and a mechanical ...

AirVersa’s new Purelle Smart Air Purifier for HomeKit came out on Amazon in the U.S. on Saturday. According to the company, it’s the first air purifier to support the Thread networking standard. That ...

On this episode, Jonathan Hui and Sujata Neidig join the HomeKit Insider podcast from the Thread Group to break down the latest news and talk about changes to Thread networking. Despite the avalanche ...

When Apple discontinued its own AirPort series of routers in April, it hinted that it viewed mesh networking as Wi-Fi's next evolution by promoting Linksys' Velop mesh routers in its stores. Now the ...

As disclosed on the specs page for Apple's new HomePod mini, the diminutive speaker is Apple's first to support Thread networking technology. Thread is a low-power IP-based networking technology for ...

The Matter 1.4 update makes good on some old promises from the smart-home tech standard. The smart home industry’s universal technology standard, Matter, will get a significant update that could make ...

Oslo, Norway. Nordic Semiconductor today announced that it has launched its first Thread networking solution with the release of its nRF5 SDK for Thread that is designed to utilize the IEEE 802.15.4 ...