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ZigBee's Dotdot to Serve as Universal Language for IoT

ZigBee's Dotdot to Serve as Universal Language for IoT Image Credit: Zigbee

The Zigbee alliance, Tuesday announced Dotdot, a universal language for Internet-of-Things(IoT) that works on application layer to enable communication across different networking technologies, making it possible for smart objects to work together on any network. 

The company said that it will focus on highlighting its offerings for a unified IoT at this week’s CES 2017 with the first prototypes of Dotdot-based Thread products. The alliance will also focus on highlighting its latest 3.0 products and developments solutions.

Founded in 2002, the Zigbee Alliance which now boasts more than 400 members created a low-power, wireless mesh networking technology for IoT. Even though ZigBee is best known as an open wireless communications protocol used in many home IoT products, Dotdot is intended for use with any wireless technology. Most IoT devices don’t speak the same language even if they use the same wireless technology. The result is an Internet of Things that is often a patchwork of translations, adding complexity for developers and limiting users to single-vendor systems, said Zigbee.

The zigbee alliance said it will be announcing more details about dotdot, including specifications, certification, and logo program, as 2017 progresses. 

Tobin Richardson, Zigbee Alliance President & CEO
dotdot represents the next chapter in the zigbee alliance’s continued commitment to create and evolve open standards for the smart networks in our homes, businesses and neighborhoods. The application layer that is the core language of zigbee devices has driven significant growth in the IoT.

Skip Ashton, VO of Software at Silicon Labs
Silicon Labs and our customers have succeeded in the IoT because of the scalability of zigbee’s interoperability technology. We’ve seen a significant increase in the adoption of zigbee as developers recognize their investment in the established zigbee market today will enable them to expand into new markets via dotdot.

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