The highly competitive tech giants Apple, Google and Amazon have announced they are teaming up in an effort to make smart home tech easier to use.
The firms, along with the Zigbee Alliance, will work together so that smart home products are compatible with many different smartphones and voice assistants…
One analyst [Creative Strategies’ Carolina Milanesi] said the move was a “surprise” and showed the companies were willing to “play nice”.
On their project website, the companies state: “Customers can be confident that their device of choice will work in their home and that they will be able to set up and control it with their preferred system.”
The firms say that current smart home products should continue to work, even after the new standard is brought in.
However, that won’t be imminent – draft specifications are due to be released in late 2020 at the earliest.
MacDailyNews Take: As long as security is integral, this joint project will finally propel smart home automation into the mainstream.
Good.
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Home automation installations are long term investments and customers might expect to keep using products such as lighting controllers, door locks, irrigation systems and window blinds for tens of years. It would be risky depending on your system being supported by just one vendor, who could simply decide to stop supporting it at some point in the future.
A consortium of multiple companies makes home automation a much safer bet and also means that users should be able to mix and match, adding specialised products from one manufacturer to a range of items that they have already purchased from a different supplier.
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This makes so much sense. The home automation market is going to take off now. Everyone is trying to find locks/cameras/appliances that work in their ecosystem.