The Z-Wave Alliance recently announced the newly elected Z-Wave Alliance Board of Directors, shared updates on the organization’s core initiatives and announced upcoming 2024 events.
Z-Wave Alliance Elected Board of Directors 2024:
- Chairman of the Board – Avi Rosenthal, bluesalve partners
- Vice Chairman of the Board – Gustaf Lonaeus, Alarm.com
- Treasurer – Kevin Kraus, Fortune Brands Innovation
- Secretary – Bill Scheffler, Trident IoT
- Chair Emeritus – Jonathan Adams, Amazon
- Director – Jake Alamat, Silicon Labs
- Director – Lisa Corte, ASSA ABLOY
- Director – Geoff Cummings, Johnson Controls Inc.
- Director – Scott Laing, Vivint
- Director – John Osborne, Lexi Devices
- Director – Andrew Weir, ADT
The Z-Wave Alliance also recognized Mitch Klein “for all of his service and devotion” during his tenure as executive director of the Z-Wave Alliance. In light of Klein’s contributions and dedication, the newly elected Board of Directors unanimously agreed to retire the optional board position in his honour.
“To say that the past year for Z-Wave and the Alliance has been transformative would be an understatement,” said Avi Rosenthal, chairman of the board, Z-Wave Alliance, in a statement. “In 2023 alone, the Z-Wave Alliance has taken swift action to fully ratify Z-Wave as an open-source technology by announcing silicon availability via an additional resource. Z-Wave Alliance membership, which remains paramount, benefitted through the expansion of available certification laboratories and the creation of new membership levels to broaden the organization’s reach, foster innovation, and add new opportunities for Z-Wave involvement. Even with all of that, the Z-Wave Alliance is just getting started.”
Z-Wave Open Source and Certification Updates
At the end of 2022, the Z-Wave Alliance announced the release of the Z-Wave Source Code project which was published and made available to Z-Wave Alliance members on GitHub. As of December 2023, the GitHub for open-source Z-Wave reached 100 users across over 30 membership companies and over 130,000 lines of code have been added/modified, according to the alliance.
On the certification front, in 2023 a total of 160 new Z-Wave devices including 50 Z-Wave Long Range devices passed certification. These advancements bring the total number of Z-Wave devices that have been certified for interoperability, regardless of manufacturer or silicon generation, to over 4,400 devices.
2024 Z-Wave Alliance Summit and Unplug Fest
The Z-Wave Alliance will hold two sanctioned events in 2024:
- April 30 – May 2, 2024 – Z-Wave Alliance Summit and Unplug Fest – Austin, TX
- October 21-23, 2024 – Z-Wave Alliance Summit – Seoul, Korea
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