The Z-Wave Alliance announced it has welcomed Nabu Casa, best known as the organization driving the development of Home Assistant, as an official member of the Z-Wave Alliance Board of Directors.
“Z-Wave is an important part of the smart home, providing households with more choice in the selection of devices they can connect to,” said Paulus Schoutsen, founder of Home Assistant and Nabu Casa. “By including Nabu Casa, and by extension the open-source community, Z-Wave sends a strong message about their current direction and plans for the future.”
Nabu Casa joins an impressive roster of Z-Wave Alliance board of director member companies which presently includes ADT, Alarm.com, Amazon Ring, ASSA Abloy, bluesalve partners, Fortune Brands, Johnson Controls INC., Silicon Labs, Trident IoT, and Vivint.
“We are thrilled to have an illustrious member, and champion, of the open-source community join our ranks,” said Avi Rosenthal, Chairman of the Board for the Z-Wave Alliance. “Open-source projects are majorly important in keeping standards both successful and thriving. By embracing and supporting open-source initiatives, we are not only enhancing the Z-Wave ecosystem but also reinforcing our commitment to an open, secure, and sustainable smart home environment for everyone.”
The Z-Wave Alliance actively recruits smart home and IoT leaders to join, direct, and contribute to the completely member-driven organization on a mission to chart the course of the future of Z-Wave technology and the smart home.
“Approximately one-tenth of households with Home Assistant are using Z-Wave today, accounting for an estimated 1.7 million Z-Wave devices and we continuously see increased interest in Z-Wave within the Home Assistant community,” added Schoutsen.
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About the Z-Wave Alliance
The Z-Wave Alliance is a standards development organization dedicated to developing and advancing Z-Wave® technology as an open and internationally recognized ITU standard (G.9959) for smart home and IoT solutions. Alliance members continue to shape and drive the future of Z-Wave through open development in the Alliance OS Work Group. With over 4,400 certified wireless, interoperable devices, Z-Wave Alliance member companies provide leading-edge products and systems that deliver increased comfort, convenience, energy conservation, safety, security, and more. The Z-Wave Long Range (Z-Wave LR) specification uniquely enables IoT applications beyond the home. With a range of up to 1.5 miles, Z-Wave LR delivers the performance and scalability required in MDU & hospitality deployments, and miles, Z-Wave LR provides the performance and scalability needed in MDU & hospitality deployments, and more.
About Nabu Casa
Nabu Casa is best known as the organization driving the development of Home Assistant, the world’s largest free and open-source smart home platform. More than one million households benefit from its home automation capabilities. Powered by a worldwide community of open-source developers, GitHub ranked it the second most active open-source project in the world in 2023. In 2024, the Open Home Foundation was formed as an independent organization to protect and support several open-source projects including Home Assistant, which it now owns. Nabu Casa is a commercial partner of the foundation, sharing its principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability in the smart home.
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