Building the Foundation and Future of the IoT
We are leading the movement to enable all objects to simply, securely, and seamlessly connect the world around you.
Connecting the World
The Connectivity Standards Alliance is the place where industry professionals across the globe come together, paving the way to a world of seamless interaction that is transforming the way we live, work, and play. We believe all objects can work together to enhance our day-to-day experiences, and together we create the standards, tools, and platforms which make this possible.
What We Do
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Develop
We create, evolve, and manage IoT technology standards through a well-established, collaborative process. We empower companies with practical, usable assets and tools to ease and accelerate development, freeing them to focus on new areas of IoT innovation.
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Certify
Our strong certification programs help Members avoid unnecessary development cycles, ensure compliance, and validate interoperability. Certification and our stamp of approval tell the world they can buy and use Alliance-certified products and platforms with confidence.
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Promote
We are allies for a connected future. Our Membership, spanning the globe and the IoT value chain, actively seeks to promote the benefits of global, open standards and the significance of the IoT to customers and consumers in breaking down the barriers to broad access and adoption of IoT technologies and solutions.
Allies for a Connected Future
Relentlessly driven to develop practical, scalable, and secure standards based on market needs, we are collaborative by design and industry stakeholder-focused, driving the future of the IoT. Our Members contribute innovative ideas, use cases, specifications, reference implementations, testing tools, and certification programs aimed at enabling and advancing IoT innovation and speeding time-to-market. By providing essential infrastructure and streamlined processes, we empower our community to innovate rapidly and effectively.
Why Standards?
To make the IoT more accessible, secure, and usable, the Connectivity Standards Alliance creates and promotes universal, open standards enabling products to securely connect and interact. The power of these standards, packaged with our certification frameworks and tools, is proven to:
- Increase adoption and growth across the IoT value chain
- Improve value of IoT experiences for customers and consumers
- Grow business for our Members
We convene global leaders to collaborate, create, and evolve universal open standards for the products that transform the way we live, work, and play.
The Connectivity Standards Alliance is an innovation hub for the future of the IoT.
Technology. Designed.
With more than 20 years of operating as a global, open standards organization, the Alliance has continued to expand in scale, scope, and impact. From our founding technology, Zigbee, to our IP-based open standard, Matter, we are on a mission to simplify and harmonize the IoT.
Learn more about all our Technologies and Solutions
This industry-unifying standard delivers reliable, secure connectivity, and is a seal of approval that devices will work seamlessly together, today and tomorrow. Matter is creating more connections between more objects, simplifying development for manufacturers and increasing compatibility for consumers.
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Green Power is a specialty Zigbee solution that allows for energy-harvesting technology to be used directly with the Zigbee stack. Green Power has become the global wireless standard for large installations where changing batteries and accessing devices would be inconvenient, if not cost-prohibitive.
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Zigbee is a market-proven, widely adopted, complete loT solution — from its mesh network to its universal language that allows smart objects to work together, Zigbee increases choice and flexibility for users and developers. Zigbee delivers the confidence that products and services will work together through standardization and testing of all layers of the stack.
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Smart Energy is the world’s leading standard for interoperable products that monitor, control, inform and automate the delivery and use of energy and water. It helps create greener homes by giving consumers the information and automation to easily reduce their consumption.
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Aliro is the industry-standard access credential and communication protocol, defined by major industry leaders, offers a secured, convenient, and consistent experience when using smartphones, wearables, or other user devices to unlock doors and openings.
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Zigbee Direct
Offers onboarding and control by enabling users to seamlessly manage Zigbee devices through Bluetooth Low Energy on smartphones, tablets, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices simplifying the user experience in commercial and home applications.
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The Product Security Working Group (PSWG) is tasked with creating a product security certification program indicating conformance to security best practices, technical capabilities, and existing product security regulations. The PSWG’s…
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Suzi is a long-range Sub-GHz mesh network built on the proven Zigbee architecture, enabling broader connectivity and new residential, commercial, and industrial applications through the first widely adopted standard for…
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Data Privacy
The Data Privacy Working Group (DPWG) plays a pivotal role in the ongoing efforts to enhance data privacy and security in the IoT. The DPWG aims to develop a certification…
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Certification Creates Confidence
Certification validates compliance with a Connectivity Standards Alliance specification. It also allows for the use of Certified Product logos on packaging and products, building trust and confidence with customers and consumers.
What our Members are saying about leading the industry toward a more intuitive, connected, and useful world
“My experience working with the [Alliance] has been eye-opening and collaborative, giving me the opportunity to participate and share ideas with key industry players, benefitting existing and new members with fresh perspectives.”
Lisa Corte
Director, Strategic Programs, ASSA ABLOY
“Working within the Alliance is a wonderful place to listen, share, and collect information, benefitting both end users and member companies.”
Bruno Vulcano
R&D Manager, Legrand
Chair Emeritas, Connectivity Standards Alliance
“Participating in the [Alliance] is an opportunity to influence the standards and ensure the end product improves the industry as a whole and is successful, which benefits all companies and end users.”
Genie Peshkova
Vice President of Operations, DSR Corporation
Empowered & Engaged Developer Community
Join the thousands of individuals contributing to the ongoing development of specifications that help bring great products to market. With our Members’ deep and diverse expertise, robust certification programs, and a full suite of open IoT solutions and a community working together to grow and improve the IoT, the Alliance is leading the movement toward a more intuitive, connected, secure, and useful world.