IoT for the Home - an Introduction to the Thread Protocol

We are moving the Lua hack night to a meeting soon because the boards missed their shipping target and still have not arrived! Charles is going to talk about another topic that he is passionate about: Thread IoT protocol!

The biggest consumer facing market for IoT today is home automation. It is also one of the most crowded with many suitors vying to be "the standard" for low-power mesh networking that will be interoperable with the rest of the IoT. ZigBee and Z-Wave have been the standard for a while now, but we have the emerging newcomer Thread. Thread is backed by such notables as Google and Nest, and promises the resilience of ZigBee but at a smaller stack size and lower power requirements while having a higher encryption. In this talk, you will learn the basics of the Thread protocol, how it is different from the other protocols, and how you can implement it in your future IoT designs.

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Bio:

Charles J. Lord, PE, is an embedded systems consultant and trainer with over 30 years' experience in system design and development in medical, military, and industrial applications. For the last eight years, he has specialized in the integration of communication protocols into clients' products, including USB, Ethernet, and low-power wireless including ZigBee. He has taught classes in these protocols for Freescale, Renesas, various universities and conferences including ESC, and his previous company, Triangle Advanced Design and Automation. He has been a design partner with Freescale, Microchip, and Renesas. He also teaches a series of popular webinars for Design News magazine on IoT and embedded systems topics. He earned his BS in electrical engineering from N.C. State University in Raleigh, N.C. and provides training and consulting services through his company, Blue Ridge Advanced Design, in Asheville, N.C. He is a licensed professional engineer in NC and a senior member of the IEEE. In his volunteer work at the IEEE, he has served at many levels from local to regional to board committees. He is currently the chair of the IEEE NC Council and is general chair of IEEE SoutheastCon 2017 and NC IoT Day 2017.