SWAY034 April   2021 CC1312R7 , CC1352P , CC1352P7 , CC1352R , CC2642R , CC2642R-Q1 , CC2652P , CC2652P7 , CC2652PSIP , CC2652R , CC2652R7 , CC2652RB , CC2652RSIP

 

  1. 1 At a glance
  2. 2 2
  3. 3 Introduction
  4. 4 Design considerations
  5. 5 Wireless protocols
  6. 6 Zigbee
  7. 7 Thread
  8. 8 Similarities Between Zigbee and Thread
  9. 9 Differences Between Zigbee and Thread
  10. 10 Project CHIP
  11. 11Conclusion
  12. 12References
  13. 13Important Notice

10 Project CHIP

A number of home and building automation ecosystem vendors are coming together within the Zigbee Alliance to produce a new application framework. The Project Connected Home over IP (Project CHIP) is a working group within the Zigbee Alliance tasked to develop a royalty-free connectivity standard for home and building automation. This standard will have an emphasis on security and be based on market-leading IP standards-based automation technologies. This working group plans to deliver an open-source reference connectivity framework across Wi-Fi and Thread.

Project CHIP will standardize device rendezvous and provisioning through a Bluetooth Low Energy and Wi-Fi based protocol. The standard Zigbee Alliance CHIP phone application will bring devices onto the user’s Wi-Fi or Thread network. Once connected to the local IP network, the device will use standard service discovery to find other CHIP nodes locally. Application level interactions are standardized and certified to ensure interoperability between product vendors. And, if full internet connectivity is available, the device will be able to interact with the CHIP certified cloud aggregator services.

A CHIP certified product can rely on the existence of all these features within the ecosystem. This has the benefit of shortening development time for end products. While also leaving open the possibility of extending functionality with manufacturer specific features.