About this episode

Ann Olivo discusses the relevance of the Thread standard for low-power home devices in the context of competing technologies like Wi-Fi.

We’re seeing new life coming to the Thread standard. If you remember, Thread is part of the IEEE 802.15.4 wireless protocol and operates at very low power. But it doesn’t offer the bandwidth of Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi continues to get better, so I question whether there’s really a need for Thread. Apparently, my question was misguided, as Ann Olivo, the Vice-President of Marketing for the Thread Group, explained to me on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast. (Note that Ann is also the Corporate...

People in this episode

Host: Rich Nass

Guest: Ann Olivo

Topics covered

• Thread standard
• low-power devices
• wireless protocol
• IoT
• marketing

Keywords

• Thread
• low-power
• wireless protocol
• IoT
• Ann Olivo
• Wi-Fi
• embedded systems

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Thread Group, IEEE, Wi-Fi

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