Apple, Amazon, and Google Join Together to Build Better Smart Home Products

In a partnership of unlikely members in the smart abode space, Apple, Amazon, and Google accept joined together with the Zigbee Alliance to create a new working group that aims to build smart home and IoT products that will play nice with each other. The group will develop and promote a new royalty-free connectivity standard that volition increase compatibility amid smart home products while ensuring security.

The group has christened this project "Projection Connected Home over IP" or Project Flake. The companies that are a function of the working group undertaking Project Scrap will utilise an open-source arroyo for creating this new, unified connectivity standard. With giants like Apple tree, Amazon, and Google coming together, Project Scrap will also benefit from utilising the technologies used in smart home products from these companies.

Ultimately, information technology's the project's hope to brand it easier for device manufacturers to build smart home and IoT devices that work easily with the Google Assistant, Siri, and Amazon Alexa, thereby solving the problem of compatibility among smart dwelling house devices and smart assistants.

Information technology's no secret that ownership a smart dwelling house product as a consumer today is almost inevitably going to tie the consumer down into an ecosystem of products. Non all smart domicile devices support Google Assistant, Alexa, and Siri at the same time which are three of the most popular smart assistants. Moreover, devices with support for Apple tree HomeKit are incredibly limited and then far, peculiarly exterior of the United states of america.

Here's hoping Project CHIP is able to create a standard that is easily employable by device manufacturers and so consumers like y'all and I can buy smart dwelling house devices without having to restrict ourselves to only using Echos, or Google Homes, or HomePods in our houses.