Building the Foundation and Future of the IoT

We are leading the movement to enable all objects to simply, securely, and seamlessly connect the world around you.

Connecting the World

The Connectivity Standards Alliance is the place where industry professionals across the globe come together, paving the way to a world of seamless interaction that is transforming the way we live, work, and play. We believe all objects can work together to enhance our day-to-day experiences, and together we create the standards, tools, and platforms which make this possible.

What We Do

01

Develop

We create, evolve, and manage IoT technology standards through a well-established, collaborative process. We empower companies with practical, usable assets and tools to ease and accelerate development, freeing them to focus on new areas of IoT innovation.

02

Certify

Our strong certification programs help Members avoid unnecessary development cycles, ensure compliance, and validate interoperability. Certification and our stamp of approval tell the world they can buy and use Alliance-certified products and platforms with confidence.

03

Promote

We are allies for a connected future. Our Membership, spanning the globe and the IoT value chain, actively seeks to promote the benefits of global, open standards and the significance of the IoT to customers and consumers in breaking down the barriers to broad access and adoption of IoT technologies and solutions.

Bringing together the world’s most innovative companies

Allies for a Connected Future

Relentlessly driven to develop practical, scalable, and secure standards based on market needs, we are collaborative by design and industry stakeholder-focused, driving the future of the IoT. Our Members contribute innovative ideas, use cases, specifications, reference implementations, testing tools, and certification programs aimed at enabling and advancing IoT innovation and speeding time-to-market. By providing essential infrastructure and streamlined processes, we empower our community to innovate rapidly and effectively.

Why Standards?

To make the IoT more accessible, secure, and usable, the Connectivity Standards Alliance creates and promotes universal, open standards enabling products to securely connect and interact. The power of these standards, packaged with our certification frameworks and tools, is proven to:
  • Increase adoption and growth across the IoT value chain
  • Improve value of IoT experiences for customers and consumers 
  • Grow business for our Members
We convene global leaders to collaborate, create, and evolve universal open standards for the products that transform the way we live, work, and play.
The Connectivity Standards Alliance is an innovation hub for the future of the IoT.
Tobin Richardson
CEO & President

Technology. Designed.

With more than 20 years of operating as a global, open standards organization, the Alliance has continued to expand in scale, scope, and impact. From our founding technology, Zigbee, to our IP-based open standard, Matter, we are on a mission to simplify and harmonize the IoT.

Certification Creates Confidence

Certification validates compliance with a Connectivity Standards Alliance specification. It also allows for the use of Certified Product logos on packaging and products, building trust and confidence with customers and consumers.

What our Members are saying about leading the industry toward a more intuitive, connected, and useful world

“My experience working with the [Alliance] has been eye-opening and collaborative, giving me the opportunity to participate and share ideas with key industry players, benefitting existing and new members with fresh perspectives.”
Lisa Corte
Director, Strategic Programs, ASSA ABLOY

Empowered & Engaged Developer Community

Join the thousands of individuals contributing to the ongoing development of specifications that help bring great products to market. With our Members’ deep and diverse expertise, robust certification programs, and a full suite of open IoT solutions and a community working together to grow and improve the IoT, the Alliance is leading the movement toward a more intuitive, connected, secure, and useful world.