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Home Wireless Networking Gets a New Protocol

Posted August 27, 2014 12:00 AM by Engineering360 eNewsletter

Recognizing the need for a new and better way to connect products in the home, seven companies have joined forces to form the Thread Group and develop Thread, a new IP-based wireless networking protocol. The charter is to guide the adoption of the Thread protocol. Thread Group founding members consist of industry-leading companies including Google subsidiary Nest Labs, Yale Security, Silicon Labs, Samsung Electronics, Freescale Semiconductor, Big Ass Fans, and ARM.

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08/27/2014 12:19 AM

What will it cost and how hack proof will it be?

Does this mean that, ala Microsoft, everything I have now is useless?
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08/27/2014 2:21 AM

Given that Microsoft, specifically, is missing from the list, I'd say offhand that the odds of its being more hacker-proof are better than they might otherwise be?
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08/27/2014 7:59 AM

I think putting home appliances on a wireless network is another solution looking for a problem to solve. I do believe this technology will happen but I do not know yet what it will solve. This topic always reminds me of the internet connected Coke machine at Carnegie Melon University in the 1970's. One might think that if it takes more than forty years for a networking application to be rewarding that this is the wrong application. Then again I've been wrong far more often than right about the future.

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08/27/2014 9:27 AM

"I think putting home appliances on a wireless network is another solution looking for a problem to solve."

Agree 100% I have always thought (most of) these grandiose home automation schemes to be ridiculous.

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08/28/2014 2:01 AM

But I just gotta have my Internet-enabled toilet in close connection with my Internet-enabled can opener, and browser-accessible from Timbuktu.

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