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News Release from: ZigBee Alliance
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 08 February 2007
Software company is first on the board
The ZigBee Alliance has accepted Tendril as a Promoter level member of the Alliance - the highest level of membership in the ZigBee Alliance.
The ZigBee Alliance has accepted Tendril as a Promoter level member of the Alliance - the highest level of membership in the ZigBee Alliance - and Tendril has joined the ZigBee Alliance Board of Directors Tendril, the leader in network operating platform software for building, deploying and managing ZigBee wireless sensor networks, has been a Participant level member of the ZigBee Alliance since the company's founding in 2004
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Tendril's active support in various Alliance groups has helped guide the ZigBee standard as well as the Alliance's long-term growth plans.
Tendril is the first software company elected to the Board in Alliance history.
"As major OEMs standardise ZigBee for their wireless sensor network initiatives, we see the industry moving toward the deployment phase of ZigBee technology", said Adrian Tuck, CEO of Tendril.
"ZigBee adopter companies now face a number of network operations challenges such as network commissioning, diagnostics and proactive network performance management".
"Tendril is focused on answering these and many other key issues related to building, deploying and managing ZigBee networks, and the ZigBee Alliance shares our commitment to helping adopters successfully tackle these network operations issues".
"We look forward to working with the Alliance to ensure that adopters of ZigBee technology are successful as they enter the mass-scale deployment phase of their ZigBee projects".
Tendril joins Eaton Corporation, Ember Corporation, Freescale Semiconductor, Honeywell, Huawei Technologies, Mitsubishi Electric, Motorola, Philips, Samsung, Schneider Electric, Siemens, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments on the ZigBee Alliance Board of Directors.
"Tendril's increased participation in the ZigBee Alliance is further proof of our commitment to supporting OEMs as they adopt and deploy ZigBee technology throughout their product lines", said Bob Heile, Chairman of the ZigBee Alliance.
"Having Tendril on the Board of Directors allows us to draw on the leadership talents that Tendril has to offer in promoting the widespread adoption and deployment of ZigBee technology".
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