The ZigBee Alliance has announced that LEEDARSON – a player in the connected lighting and smart home ecosystem, offering solutions built for residential, commercial and industry applications – has joined the ZigBee Alliance at the Promoter level and accepted a seat on its Board of Directors. LEEDARSON is the sixteenth board member and one of the recent additions to the ZigBee Alliance as innovative companies around the world pledge support for organizations driving open ecosystems and standards for the Internet of Things (IoT).
Headquartered in Xiamen, China, LEEDARSON is a provider of lighting solutions, security and intelligent lighting control, sensing and communication systems. The company specializes in energy-saving technologies, and through its R&D Center innovates to drive the advancement of green, connected lighting devices based on LED light research, manufacturing facilities, quality control and skilled artisans.
“This is an important time as the relevant wireless standards emerge as vital to proliferation of the IoT market, and organizations behind them, like the ZigBee Alliance, move to consolidate in a strategic direction for the good of the IoT experience and end users,” says Kellen Yang, sales director from LEEDARSON. “Our organization is eager to help advance ZigBee standards. We look forward to continuing to champion 3.0 as a common language between intelligent devices, as lighting is a springboard for this movement.”
“LEEDARSON brings worldwide reach and scale to the connected lighting market – a category that will propel the smart home past the early adopter phase and into mass adoption,” says Tobin Richardson, ZigBee Alliance president and CEO. “Welcoming LEEDARSON at the Board level is noteworthy as players in residential, commercial and industrial lighting gather under the ZigBee umbrella to collaborate and drive interoperability to make the IoT meaningful in everyday life.”
LEEDARSON joins Comcast Cable, Huawei, Itron Inc., The Kroger Co., Landis+Gyr, Legrand Group, Midea Group, NXP Semiconductors, Philips, Schneider Electric, Silicon Labs, SmartThings, SOMFY, Texas Instruments and Wulian on the ZigBee Alliance Board of Directors.
For more information about the ZigBee Alliance, general membership and the benefits of joining the Alliance, visit here.
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