If there's just too many different smarthome standards - better make another one to fix that

[Bruce_Osborne]

Yup. See here. Notice that the ZigBee Alliance is involved too.

A New ZigBee IP Standard?

An interesting announcement. Let’s see what develops. Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance today announced a new working group that plans to develop and promote the adoption of a new, royalty-free connectivity standard to increase compatibility among smart home products, with security as a fundamental design tenet. Zigbee Alliance board member companies such as IKEA, Legrand, NXP Semiconductors, Resideo, Samsung SmartThings, Schneider Electric, Signify (formerly Philips Lighting), Si…