Allseen Alliance

Allseen Alliance was founded by a variety of vendors, including Qualcomm, Microsoft, Panasonic, Sony and LG. This nonprofit consortium aims to enable the adoption of products, systems and services supporting IoT with an open development framework.

The alliance created the Alljoyn framework, an open-source software protocol that makes it easy for devices and apps to communicate with each other so developers can write applications for interoperability regardless of transport layer or manufacturer.

This software will continue to be openly available for developers to download, and runs on popular platforms such as Linux and Linux-based Android, iOS, and Windows, among other operating systems.

Who It Impacts: The Allseen Alliance is one of the major attempts to standardize a solution for IoT connectivity, and solution providers interested in IoT connectivity services should keep tabs on what this alliance is doing.