Huawei, a board member and co-chair of Zigbee Alliance
participated in the Zigbee Alliance Global Members meeting from June 12-15 and presented
“OceanConnect IoT ecosystem” at the Zigbee Alliance Global IoT Forum on
June 16.
Huawei joined the Zigbee Alliance in a board leadership position
in order to help promote Zigbee Alliance standardization and certification of
IoT devices across a broad range of companies and industries. This is very
important for widespread IoT adoption here in China and also world-wide.
During these Zigbee Alliance member meetings important Zigbee standardization
advances were made in areas of Green Power, Home Energy, Home Automation, etc. In
the long term, Zigbee Alliance is focused on interoperability across access
networks, sharing Zigbee Application layer libraries with other IoT access
technology standards such as Thread Group and others, through the Zigbee
Alliance Dotdot initiative.
At the Zigbee Alliance Global IoT Forum on June 16, IoT industry
leaders from China and overseas met to share advancements in IoT industry. Some
of the noted companies presenting were China Unicom, Huawei, Philips Lighting,
Leedarson, etc.
David Hoelscher, IoT Marketing Director of Huawei Cloud Core Network presenting a speech |
Huawei presented the value of OceanConnect IoT platform and ecosystem,
and how it is important to build a strong ecosystem of interoperable partners,
with Zigbee and other IoT standards helping to build major blocks of certified
interoperability. To date, OceanConnect has gathered more than 100 business
partners, covering connected car, smart home, utilities, smart city and other
fields.
Huawei believes that set up of Zigbee and other network standards
is helping the development of the industry. “The Zigbee Alliance with its
emphasis on interoperability, is an important access technology in smart home,
smart lighting, smart building, and industrial vertical industries,” said David
Hoelscher, IoT Marketing Director of Huawei Cloud Core Network Product Line. The
idea of a large group of companies forming an alliance for certification and
interoperability within the Zigbee access technology is a very important mover
in the industry. David also added “Additionally, the initiative called Dotdot,
to share standardized Zigbee Cluster Libraries to other access networks is very
important to the industry development, and is very much in line with the
concepts of Huawei’s OceanConnect IoT platform and ecosystem”.