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Open-Source Smart Home

and the ZigBee Alliance have joined up to form Project Connected Home over IP (CHIP), with the aim of developing a framework for the integrated smart home. The ZigBee Alliance was formed in 2002; its main work until now was to look after the ZigBee standard of lowpower radio and personal area networks—the kind of gear the smart home needs. (The name is from the dance honeybees do when returning

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