The much-awaited partnership regarding smart homes, Project CHIP should deliver some fruits at the end of the season of holiday. Project CHIP stands for Project Connected Home over IP. This partnership regarding smart homes between Google, Amazon, Apple, and other 170 companies will be starting to show results sometime later in 2021. This partnership is looking for making everything compatible.
More Details About Project CHIP
Zigbee Alliance hosted a webinar earlier this week. According to that webinar, the participating companies will get devices related to smart homes by late this year. This implies that the shelves reserved for the shopping holiday season might get filled with these devices. The 1st devices wave will include stuff like Wi-Fi routers, security systems, door locks, TVs, HVAC controls, blinds, and lighting.
The standard inside Project CHIP is mainly built based on 3 kinds of technology: setup for Bluetooth LE, Wi-Fi for cases that use high bandwidths, like video streaming inside the security camera, lastly the nascent Thread network protocol which is used for motion sensors and other devices which uses low bandwidths. The thread which scientists are still working on is available on the Euro Routers, Nest Hub, and HomePod Mini.CHIP support will be brought to much older products with the help of bridges.
The pandemic delayed the program which was 1st announced in 2019. Originally it was supposed to include products by 2020. It might still be [possible for the launch to be slipping into 2022.CHIP’s goal is to offer a uniform standard regarding products of smart homes so that the customers don’t worry about their devices working with their other devices which they already have. This technology replaces the older protocols of smart homes like Z-Wave and Zigbee thereby making it designed for working with the user’s preferable voice assistant.
