The Z-Wave Alliance has announced its completed incorporation as a solely independent non-profit organization and seven founding members under its new standards development organization (SDO) structure: Alarm.com, Assa Abloy, Leedarson, Ring, Silicon Labs, StratIS, and Qolsys.
Under the SDO, Z-Wave Alliance members will be given new opportunities to participate in the organization, with new membership levels and structure, as well as workgroups and committees. These include technical working groups specific to features such as the physical layer working group (mac/PHY), networking layer working group to support the new Z-Wave Specification, and application layer working group (command class specification), as well as working groups for certification, security, and marketing. Committees will be established to manage operational, as well as technical and marketing needs.
This new membership and organizational structure will be member-driven to support forward momentum, project development, technology development and changes, and other pieces critical to the growth of Z-Wave in the market.
“For over 15 years, the Z-Wave Alliance has stood as a leader in the smart home and IoT industry, with diverse membership comprised of manufacturers, integrators, and others all supporting Z-Wave’s growth in the market,” says Mitchell Klein, executive director of the Z-Wave Alliance. “Establishing our founding members, several of which have been with us as board members for many years, is a critical step forward in setting a new course for the Alliance to follow in 2020 and beyond. By making these changes to the Z-Wave Alliance’s role and to the Z-Wave Specification, our goal is to facilitate open IoT deployment and engage new kinds of companies into Z-Wave development to bolster the ecosystem, including silicon vendors and software developers, to bring Z-Wave to more devices and more industries.”
The Z-Wave Alliance is currently in the process of transferring memberships and establishing workgroups. Visit https://z-wavealliance.org/sdo/ for additional information on new membership levels, FAQs about the SDO, and more.
