this chipset may prevent a network cacophony in your smart home : Tue, 08 Dec 2015 05:00:02 -0800 -
Choosing smart-home products might get easier a year from now thanks to a Broadcom chipset that will be able to work with several competing network systems.
There's a long list of protocols and software frameworks going into the Internet of Things for the home, and a lot of them don't work together. The vision of a house full of devices that can automatically find each other and work in perfect harmony is still just that, and it's unlikely any one product will make that possible. But Broadcom is trying to solve a small piece of the problem while simultaneously cutting costs and power consumption.
The chipset that could help to simplify IoT purchases is the BCM20739, the top of the line in Broadcom's new family of integrated IoT chipsets. All are designed to power small, energy-efficient client devices like wearables and home appliances but could also go into hubs that link those gadgets. The components are shipping in sample quantities now and should be in consumer products for the 2016 holiday shopping season.
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