IoT open standard War — Nest Open sourced thread

All big players are in for an war for IoT, Samsung with its Smart Things and ARTIK Cloud platform, AWS wit its AWS IoT Product, IBM Watson with it’s IBM Internet of Things, Apple with its Home kit, Google with its Brillo and Weave products.

Nest has joined the party by announcing OpenThread which is open source implementation of it’s Thread protocol. After Nest’s acquisition by Google last year it has started seeing things in bigger perspective and how can it play a much much bigger role.

It will be compatible with Weave as well. With the Google’s developer conference next week Google I/O 2016 we are expecting new announcements on IoT as well so far Google is struggling to compete with its rival who seems to be having a head way in this area so far.

The source code for openThread is available on Github to start playing around with it.

Overall IoT is a hot place right now and everyone seems to be looking for take a pie, we will see communities like IAB for Advertising setting up for IoT as well to bring all of them together. From where I see it won’t be a winner takes all game and we will see multiple players establishing their presence in next 5 years.

Originally published at Next Gen Technology Insider.