Z-Wave Alliance Formalizes Standards Development & Announces Founding Members
The Z-Wave Alliance, a global membership organization dedicated to advancing the popular Z-Wave wireless smart home protocol, announced completion of 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 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, 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.