Austin, TX (PRWEB) May 06, 2015
Affinegy, the network management solution company that makes IoT Just Work, today detailed its presence at IOT World. Co-founder and CEO Melissa Simpler will be representing the AllSeen Alliance as part of the Wednesday keynote panel, “Integrating IoT Technologies and Standards & Creating a Sustainable IoT framework”. Co-founder and CTO Art Lancaster will be speaking on IoT open source approaches on Tuesday. Affinegy will be demonstrating its CHARIOT Cloud services in the AllSeen Alliance booth, #110, at Internet of Things World, happening May 12 to 13 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco. For more, see: http://iotworldevent.com/
On May 13 from 9:50 to 10:30 am, Melissa Simpler will be representing the AllSeen Alliance at the IoT protocol keynote panel on the main stage. The AllSeen Alliance is an open source consortium of 140+ companies committed to making the Internet of Things a reality. Panelists from several different IoT groups will be discussing the range of enabling technologies for IoT; overcoming interoperability challenges; which wireless standards will be most pertinent; and how to integrate the different standards such as integrating technologies in the radio access and application layer.. Simpler will be joined on the panel by speakers from the Industrial Internet Consortium, Thread Group, OneM2M, IPSO Alliance, and OIC.
On May 12 at 2 pm at the IoT Stage on the exhibition show floor, Art Lancaster will be speaking at the IoT Open Source Summit. Lancaster will be discussing the AllSeen Alliance and open source IoT approaches, such as the objective and scope of key IoT open source initiatives, and when and how IoT developers should use open source tools.
Affinegy will also be showcasing its technology and several IoT interoperability solutions, at the AllSeen Alliance booth #110. Specifically Affinegy will demonstrate how its CHARIOT cloud services work with AllSeen Alliance connected products and applications. Affinegy’s CHARIOT Cloud provides a Simple, Secure and Scalable services stack for AllJoyn applications, enabling these mobile apps to work away from home just like they were still at home - and directly peer to peer with fast operation. Affinegy will also demonstrate how easy it is to onboard AllJoyn-enabled products with its CHARIOT Cloud service, and how easy it is for IoT developers to cloud enable products with CHARIOT.
In its demonstration, Affinegy’s CHARIOT Cloud and Client software will demonstrate how easy and seamless it is to connect and make more intelligent several connected devices of the home, including LG’s SmartTV, Powertech’s WiFi smart plug, LIFX’s LED Wi-Fi light bulb, Fon’s Gramafon WiFi music player. Connected consumer use cases for enabling, managing and using all of these devices simply and securely inside and away from home will be shown on Nexus tablet and smartphone, an Acer Ultrabook and an Apple MacBook. See http://chariot.global for additional information.
Affinegy was one of the first companies to join the AllSeen Alliance, immediately after it launched, in December 2013, and now works alongside LG Electronics, Microsoft, Panasonic, Qualcomm, Silicon Image and 150 others to fulfill the AllSeen mission. In April 2014, Lancaster was elected to the AllSeen Alliance Board of Directors. In May 2014, he was made chair of the Gateway Working Group, which announced its first release in January 2015 at CES, the AllJoyn Gateway Agent, an Internet of Things game changer.
Labeled a founding member of AllSeen Alliance, Affinegy’s decade-long focus on connected device management is a critical asset to all things IoT. Affinegy is ideally suited to be a leader in the Internet of Things because, for twelve years, it has focused on connected device management – from pure Internet, broadband and WiFi access, to the connected home whether entertainment, home security or home automation, and now to all things possible with the Internet of Things. Affinegy technology is interoperable with hundreds of network devices. Its intelligent device discovery and classification technology comes from this decade long commitment to make the connected life simple, secure, and automated.
Affinegy has helped cable and telco service providers, help their end customers with installation and provisioning, management and support, to the tune of more than 35 million homes. Speaking opportunities at IoT World and leadership roles for Affinegy with AllSeen Alliance validate that this company is uniquely poised to be the glue for the Internet of Things, to be the technology that makes all devices Just Work, easily and securely.
More About Affinegy
Since 2003, Affinegy has delivered connected device management solutions to leading cable/telco broadband service providers and device manufacturers that help consumers customers with installation, provisioning, management and support of services. Now, Affinegy’s software enables full, easy, secure device connectivity in the Internet of Things. Affinegy is a leader in the AllSeen Alliance, the broadest cross-industry consortium to advance the Internet of Things. Affinegy is headquartered in Austin, TX with additional offices in Dallas, and Wroclaw, Poland. More at http://www.affinegy.com.
