Laying the Groundwork for the Internet of Things: AllSeen Alliance’s Noah Harlan

Qualcomm open-sourced AllJoyn and contributed it to the AllSeen Alliance. Now competitors are “working jointly to define protocols that, if the protocol were owned by either party, they would never do,” states Noah. “Everyone will benefit — consumers, developers, OEMs — when the barriers to interoperability are reduced and competitors will compete on their products, not their protocols.