Project CHIP (Connected Home over IP) ..

 While in the 80s, we saw the Internet move from text interface to the 90s when it moved to video and graphics, world wide web (WWW) and now at the beginning of the 3 rd decade of the 21 st century we find control going over to voice and the rise of Virtual Assistants from Amazon Echo, Google Home, Microsoft Cortana and Apple Siri, we are getting prepared to an exciting UI for these AI based Virtual Assistants that can carry out voice to text and reverse conversion.

Project CHIP (Connected Home over IP) which was suggested in Dec 2019 is an industry group working on connected smart homes with Amazon, Google and Apple along with the Zigbee alliance which is between Ikea, Samsung and Philips. Together the global giants with other players like Schneider will be able to make a great impact in the smart home market.

Project CHIP is a Connected Home over IP is an open-sourced, royalty-free home automation connectivity standard project which features compatibility among different smart home and Internet of things products and software. Wikipedia 

What are they planning to deliver ?

Adoption of a new royalty free connectivity standard that ensures better compatibility between smart home products with higher security is the main objective of this alliance. 

What is the advantage for the world through this alliance ?

1. Since it is open source, there will no royalty for connecting and using different networked products across ecosystems, ensuring inexpensive, convenient, free access and usage between home networked systems.

2. Being standardised, it ensures rapid adoption and wide usage. Just like the open source TCP/IP helped make Internet accessible for everybody, the project CHIP protocols will make it easy for organisations across the world to start collaborate using these protocols and provide vallued added end products to the customer (like e-commerce was enabled by www and TCP/IP).

3. Being cheap and low cost connectivity standards, it can promote fast development of poorer areas of the world

4, It can bring about great developments in healthcare and medical diagnosis without the interference of expert doctors

5. It can bring about revolution in improving productivity  in agriculture ending the food grain shortage

Over time, more uses will be exposed and innovated leading to better quality of human life.

George..