Panasonic to offer royalty-free IoT

Consumer electronics company Panasonic has announced that it will provide royalty-free access to software, patents and experience from its product ecosystem to speed up the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) software and services. The company plans to make available for royalty-free use mature and tested device-to-cloud software technology, currently employed in home monitoring systems, solar energy and in retail applications.

“As a well-respected member of the Alliance with deep experience in the IoT market, Panasonic is making a strong statement with this announcement. The power of IoT comes from the scale of the network of interconnecting things. The more things seamlessly connect using open protocols, the more individuals, businesses and communities can do. With this announcement, Panasonic is extending the reach and power of AllJoyn to deliver an Internet of Everything,” said Philip DesAutels, PhD, senior director, IoT, AllSeen Alliance.

Panasonic will focus on expanding a secure, flexible and interoperable open source software framework to enable the development of scalable and reliable network services from a variety of components and systems including gateways and cloud services. The framework will support different IoT networking technologies, and new deployments as well as legacy systems.