IoT Ready Alliance Folds Into Zhaga Consortium

Zhaga and the IoT Ready Alliance recently announced that they have agreed to align their efforts and to proceed as a single organization under the Zhaga Consortium. The objective is to foster a harmonized, global set of interface specifications for sensor-to-luminaire integration and to remove confusion in the industry.

In summer 2018, the Zhaga Consortium and the IoT Ready Alliance entered into a dialogue to explore the possibility of aligning their standardization activities for sensor-to-luminaire integration. At the beginning of 2019 the organizations agreed that it was best to harmonize their efforts with the objective of easing the adoption of a singular set of interface specifications and of removing any confusion in the Industry.

Background to this decision was the fact that the New Zhaga went live in December 2018 with a widened scope of work to address new growth areas in IoT and the service economy. The New Zhaga focuses on interoperability and executes a.o. a strong program to address interfaces for smart components, such as sensors and communication modules.

Zhaga said it has received strong interest in their latest specification, Book 18, defining interoperability between outdoor luminaire and smart sensing/communication nodes. Another specification which is close to approval is Book 20 about a smart interface for indoor luminaires and sensing/communication modules.

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