Microsoft joins the AllSeen Alliance to help standardize the connected home

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Published on July 2, 2014

published on July 2, 2014

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Have you ever wished that your smartphone could tell your air conditioner to power on as you approach home, which would then get your doors unlocked, shades closed, lights on, kettle brewing, and your bath running by the time you walk through the door? Regardless of the brand of your appliances or the operating system they run on? When things are too good to be true they usually aren’t, but not in this case.

That scenario is not far beyond the realm of possibilities, thanks to the AllSeen Alliance by Qualcomm that Microsoft has now become a part of. The Alliance aims to create open standards for Internet of Things (IoT) devices having publicly released the source code to developers.

Microsoft has joined a number of renowned appliance makers including LG, Sharp, and Panasonic, in addition to retailers, automakers, and cloud service providers to make fully connected homes a reality.

Let us know the ways in which you would like your home appliances to communicate with each other, or would you rather they remain manually activated?

Radu Tyrsina

Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time). For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web. Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they're looking for.