Tech pages/IoT Interoperability

overview
Creating interoperabilty is a crucial thing in the area of Internet of Things. Interoperability is needed on several layers and can either be forced in to specifications and required through certification processes.

ZigBee alliance is for example having a certification procedure

When working with open initiatives the only way for this to work is that it is free to join and doesn't cost a fortune to be compliant. And most importantly it is open specifications that is easy to find.

One obstacle is that the specifications must

Interoperability XSF working group
In all networks that combines information from different systems over business and technology borders the crucial thing is to get interoperability. And there is no other way to do this than creating specifications that adds the "common good practices" to make things speak the same language. The interoperability spec will be a moving target with constant elaboration to enable true interoperability between systems

We are therefore planning for a special working group in the XSF organisation that votes a

Other examples

 * Lonworks and the lonmark organisation
 * The Zigbee smart energy 2.0 and ZigBee IP