Alliances for interoperability and network connectivity in IOT

Interoperability and network connectivity are two major issues in IOT design. Both are giving opportunity to a new wave of products and services. AllSeen Alliance, a cross industry IOT alliance is working on the interoperability issues by launching AllJoyn Device System Bridge (DSB) to make the legacy devices and communication networks interoperable. Microsoft is said to have contributed the open source DSB code to AllJoyn. With the AllJoyn Device System Bridge, IOT embedded software design engineers can connect existing devices that use BACnet or Z-Wave to an AllJoyn network. Basically the idea is to enable existing devices to interact with new AllJoyn devices, and also allowing cloud connectivity across all devices on the network. To learn more about AllJoyn DSB, which is part of the Gateway Working Group, visit: https://wiki.allseenalliance.org/gateway/gateway. Another alliance related to IOT networks, LoRa from Semtech is gaining popularity in IOT networking. Semtech supplying LoRa technology to telecom companies to use in low-power wide area networks for IOT. LoRa is said to have higher range then a cellular network and also at a lesser power requirements and also modem cost is less. The latest LoRaWAN R1.0 specification is now available to download from the LoRa Alliance website. LoRaWAN is a kind of star-of-stars network, where the gateways act as t...