Thread Group aims its IoT mesh network at enterprises

The still-fragmented internet of things is slowly converging on protocols that may someday work in both homes and enterprises.
The latest move to standardize how IoT devices talk to each other is a push by the Thread Group into industrial and commercial systems. Its Thread protocol, with roots in Alphabet’s Nest division, defines a low-power wireless mesh network. The organization hopes Thread will bring systems with proprietary network technologies into the Internet Protocol world, letti