Z-Wave Alliance Announces New Board of Directors for 2023

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The Z-Wave Alliance, the Standards Development Organization (SDO) dedicated to advancing the smart home and Z-Wave technology, today announces the newly elected Z-Wave Alliance Board of Directors. Effective immediately, the updated roster of roles and representatives from across the connected home and IoT industry is as follows:

The past two years has driven impressive growth in the smart home industry. Data is showing that 55% of U.S. adults or 110 million people now own one or more smart home device(s). Z-Wave has experienced this first-hand with milestones such as the availability of the Z-Wave Long Range (LR) certification, achieving 4100 certified Z-Wave devices, and witnessing 90 million new devices enter the market since 2020. 

Conversations concerning standards and protocols are at an all-time high. Amongst talk of one of the most anticipated new developments in the IoT, the Z-Wave Alliance proudly seats Jonathan Adams, a young and emerging technology leader at Amazon at the head of the organization.

Furthermore, the Alliance continues to benefit from the knowledge and expertise from the collective board, which includes leaders who are founding participants of Project CHIP and who currently hold chaired positions within both the Thread Group and the Connectivity Standards Alliance.  

“Recently, the universally sourced, industry-rallying battle-cry has been that of interoperability,” said Mitch Klein, Executive Director of the Z-Wave Alliance. “No other organization has as much experience at the helm as the Z-Wave Alliance, which has operated with interoperability as a core value for the past two decades. If the freshly elected Z-Wave Board of Directors proves anything, it is that industry leaders and trend setters echo our sentiment and see the future of Z-Wave as bright and opportunistic.”   

Across the entire group, the Z-Wave Alliance Board of Directors features top leadership from companies at the forefront of IoT. Newly elected members bring fresh perspective, new ideas, and instantly add their background to the board’s decades of combined experience. 

For more information on the Z-Wave Alliance Board of Directors, please visit https://z-wavealliance.org/z-wave-board-of-directors/. 

For more information about the Z-Wave Alliance, please visit http://z-wavealliance.org.

https://www.twice.com/the-wire/z-wave-alliance-announces-new-board-of-directors-for-2023

Z-Wave Alliance announces new board of directors for 2023

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The Z-Wave Alliance, the Standards Development Organization (SDO) dedicated to advancing the smart home and Z-Wave technology, today announces the newly elected Z-Wave Alliance Board of Directors. Effective immediately, the updated roster of roles and representatives from across the connected home and IoT industry is as follows:

The past two years has driven impressive growth in the smart home industry. Data is showing that 55% of U.S. adults or 110 million people now own one or more smart home device(s). Z-Wave has experienced this first-hand with milestones such as the availability of the Z-Wave Long Range (LR) certification, achieving 4100 certified Z-Wave devices, and witnessing 90 million new devices enter the market since 2020. 

Conversations concerning standards and protocols are at an all-time high. Amongst talk of one of the most anticipated new developments in the IoT, the Z-Wave Alliance proudly seats Jonathan Adams, a young and emerging technology leader at Amazon at the head of the organization.

Furthermore, the Alliance continues to benefit from the knowledge and expertise from the collective board, which includes leaders who are founding participants of Project CHIP and who currently hold chaired positions within both the Thread Group and the Connectivity Standards Alliance.  

“Recently, the universally sourced, industry-rallying battle-cry has been that of interoperability,” said Mitch Klein, Executive Director of the Z-Wave Alliance. “No other organization has as much experience at the helm as the Z-Wave Alliance, which has operated with interoperability as a core value for the past two decades. If the freshly elected Z-Wave Board of Directors proves anything, it is that industry leaders and trend setters echo our sentiment and see the future of Z-Wave as bright and opportunistic.”   

Across the entire group, the Z-Wave Alliance Board of Directors features top leadership from companies at the forefront of IoT. Newly elected members bring fresh perspective, new ideas, and instantly add their background to the board’s decades of combined experience. 

For more information on the Z-Wave Alliance Board of Directors, please visit https://z-wavealliance.org/z-wave-board-of-directors/. 

For more information about the Z-Wave Alliance, please visit http://z-wavealliance.org.

https://www.twice.com/the-wire/z-wave-alliance-announces-new-board-of-directors-for-2023

MEDIA ALERT | LEXI Announces New Advisory Board Member

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LEXI, the company behind the industry’s most comprehensive IoT platform that’s transforming how enterprises and consumers manage and automate their Smart Spaces, is pleased to announce the addition of a new member to its Advisory Board. Brett Bonner, Former Vice President of Research & Development/Operations Research at grocery retail giant, Kroger, brings significant experience and wisdom from the retail and logistics space to contribute to LEXI’s multi-protocol endeavors.

“We are thrilled to have Brett join LEXI’s Advisory Board! He is a tremendous addition to our team of experienced investors and advisors and brings a unique perspective given his experience researching and developing IoT systems and solutions for retail. Brett is a well-known leader in the IoT space, making his appointment a strategic and integral part of our company’s growth.” – Scott Cahill, CEO, LEXI

About Brett Bonner

Brett Bonner was formerly the Vice President of Research & Development/Operations Research at The Kroger Co., America’s largest grocery retailer. For nearly 14 years, Brett focused on creating sustainable competitive advantage by inventing advanced technologies and developing projects for retail and logistics that individually had at least a $50 million contribution.

Before joining Kroger, Brett served 25 years at Federal Express in various positions, including Technical Fellow, Managing Director of Scanning Technologies, and VP of FedEx Internet Technologies.  During his time at FedEx, he invented and developed many diverse systems and his profit contribution for such systems exceeded $600 million per year.Brett formerly served on the Zigbee Alliance Board of Directors, the TechPoint Advisory Board and others throughout his industrious career. His FAST Alerts system was featured in Popular Science and on national TV shows, won a 2015 CIO 100 award, and ranked #3 in InfoWorld Elite 100 for QueVision for 2014.  He was awarded the 2013 Franz Edelman Laureate for Achievement in Management Science and  2010 Planet Retail Innovator of the Year. Brett is a named inventor on 33 US patents from Federal Express and Kroger.

“I’m looking forward to being part of the success at LEXI. The comprehensive LEXI IoT Platform is innovative and robust with an exciting future to span applications across a variety of industries, including retail. This team’s expertise is deep and proven, and I look forward to contributing insights garnered from my own background with IoT systems and solutions to guide LEXI into a prosperous future within the IoT.” – Brett Bonner

About LEXI®

LEXI offers the ultimate gateway to the IoT universe. Our intelligent IoT platform is flexible, future-proof, and designed to empower companies to easily and intuitively add and manage Smart Devices for the home, building, city and agriculture. Our executive team is involved at the board level within leading global standards bodies that are charting the course for the connected future. Built by design to work with ALL leading ecosystems*, ALL major wireless protocols** and to bridge competitive third-party products, our Universal IoT Gateway is unrivaled, the LEXI Mobile App is comprehensive yet uncomplicated, and our U.S.-based cloud services were built by us from the ground up, enabling LEXI to deliver truly unique functionality at up to 90% cost savings over all our competitors. Learn more about the LEXI IoT Edge-to-Cloud Platform and other intelligent advantages at lexi.tech.

*Supports Amazon Alexa®, Google Home®, HomeKit®, IFTTT® & Samsung SmartThings®

**Far-reaching and future-ready: 900MHz, Bluetooth, LoRaWAN, Wi-Fi, Zigbee, Z-Wave plus OTA to BLE Mesh, Thread and Matter

Media Contact: Caroline Gick – LEXI Marketing/PR, pr@lexi.tech 

PRESS RELEASE | Z-Wave Alliance Announces LEXI Joins The Board Of Directors

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Beaverton, OR – October 26, 2022 – The Z-Wave Alliance, the standards development organization dedicated to advancing the smart home and Z-Wave® technology, today announces that LEXI, the company behind the industry’s most comprehensive IoT platform that is transforming how both enterprises and consumers manage and automate their smart spaces, has officially joined the Z-Wave Alliance Board of Directors.

Ratified as a standards development organization (SDO), the Z-Wave Alliance actively recruits smart home and IoT leaders to join, direct, and contribute to the completely member-driven organization and chart the course of the future of Z-Wave technology and the smart home. LEXI joins an impressive roster of Z-Wave Alliance board of director member companies which currently includes ADT, Alarm.com, ASSA Abloy, Bluesalve Partners, LEEDARSON, Qolsys, Ring, Silicon Labs, and Vivint.

“The future is open, interoperable, and flexible – and this is the vision and reality LEXI shepherds into the market and contributes to at a board-level and to workgroup conversations within the Z-Wave Alliance,” said John E. Osborne II, COO, LEXI. “Companies of any size with the right goals, roadmap, and passion can have a seat at these important industry tables. Working together to solve challenges, mutually benefit and draft off one another’s experience and ideas, and evolve the IoT landscape for everyone involved is a mission we believe in whole-heartedly.”

Holding prestigious positions as Vice Chairman of the Z-Wave Alliance Board of Directors and Chairman Emeritus for the Connectivity Standards Alliance, John recently joined LEXI as Chief Operating Officer (COO). The organization has a deep bench of seasoned IoT executives with a product portfolio poised to support the wave of collaboration taking place across the industry.

“LEXI joining the Board of Directors with John as both their representative and newly appointed COO is a major win for the Z-Wave Alliance,” said Mitch Klein, Executive Director of the Z-Wave Alliance. “LEXI and Z-Wave share in a critical goal for the smart home – interoperability – and we’re thrilled to officially announce and welcome LEXI to the board under the insightful leadership of John, who has been a steward of smart home development for decades.”

For more information on the Z-Wave Alliance, please visit http://z-wavealliance.org.

Follow the Z-Wave Alliance on Facebook, Twitter and on LinkedIn for the latest updates.

 About the Z-Wave Alliance

The Z-Wave Alliance is a standards development organization dedicated to developing and advancing Z-Wave® technology as an open and internationally recognized ITU standard (G.9959) for smart home and IoT solutions. Alliance members lead the home controls market, providing leading edge products and systems that deliver increased comfort, convenience, energy conservation, safety, and security. Z-Wave® is a registered trademark of the Z-Wave Alliance.

About LEXI®

LEXI offers the ultimate gateway to the IoT universe. Our intelligent IoT platform is flexible, future-proof, and designed to empower companies to easily and intuitively add and manage Smart Devices for the home, building, city and agriculture. Our executive team is involved at the board level within leading global standards bodies that are charting the course for the connected future. Built by design to work with ALL leading ecosystems*, ALL major wireless protocols** and to bridge competitive third-party products, our Universal IoT Gateway is unrivaled, the LEXI Mobile App is comprehensive yet uncomplicated, and our U.S.-based cloud services were built by us from the ground up, enabling LEXI to deliver truly unique functionality at up to 90% cost savings over all our competitors. Learn more about the LEXI IoT Edge-to-Cloud Platform and other intelligent advantages at lexi.tech.

*Supports Amazon Alexa®, Google Home®, HomeKit®, IFTTT® & Samsung SmartThings®
**Far-reaching and future-ready: 900MHz, Bluetooth, LoRa, Wi-Fi, Zigbee, Z-Wave plus OTA to BLE Mesh, Thread and Matter

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 Z-Wave Alliance Press Contact:
Caster Communications, Inc.
401.792.7080
zwave@castercomm.com

LEXI Press Contact:
Caroline Gick
LEXI Marketing/PR
pr@lexi.tech

https://z-wavealliance.org/news_p/z-wave-alliance-announces-lexi-joins-the-board-of-directors/

John E. Osborne II Joins LEXI As COO

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IoT industry veteran brings wealth of experience to push platform even further

LEXI has announced that John E. Osborne II has joined the executive team as COO. In his new role, John will oversee the company’s multi-protocol product development, systems innovation, rapid product commercialization, and agile operations.

John has an established presence in the IoT domain with deep roots in industry alliances that dictate and steer the future of the Internet of Things. He serves as Chairman Emeritus of the Connectivity Standards Alliance (formerly the Zigbee Alliance) – the international force behind the imminent IoT interoperability standard, Matter. He’s also a fixture within the Z-Wave Alliance and currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Board – working alongside game-changing institutions for the betterment of the connected world.

Prior to joining LEXI, John was President North America at LEEDARSON – the largest IoT manufacturer in the world. And he gained 20 years of experience at one of the planet’s largest retailers as General Manager for R&D, Operations Research at Kroger.

“John is truly a perfect fit at the perfect time to step in and propel LEXI onto the IoT main stage,” said Scott Cahill, CEO, LEXI. “The future of IoT is multi-protocol, and that’s the realm where John has been leading and living – gathering decades of wireless standards and product expertise, insight and long-running relationships with key players across the IoT universe. Adding him to the LEXI leadership lineup is significant.”

As COO, John supports LEXI’s business objectives to empower companies to easily and intuitively add and manage connected devices to home and commercial environments. LEXI’s flagship gateway solution is universal, interoperable, multi-protocol and intelligent. Earlier this month, the company profiled additional areas of focus and expansion via the launch of its investment campaign at Republic.

“My background spans software, hardware, services and standards for smart home, building, retail – you name it,” said John E. Osborne II, COO, LEXI. “I’ve been globetrotting my entire career to educate and grow the IoT market. I meet, speak, listen and collaborate across continents, and I’m pumped to be here at LEXI funneling my learnings, vision and connections into the tremendous team producing tremendous technologies that already have a foothold in the future.”

Follow John here: John E. Osborne II, LinkedIn

Track LEXI as the company settles into orbit within the forthcoming multi-protocol universe: LEXI, LinkedIn

Be part of the charge into the IoT’s next frontier: LEXI’s Republic Campaign page

https://www.twice.com/industry/people/john-e-osborne-ii-joins-lexi-as-coo

PRESS RELEASE | John E. Osborne II Joins LEXI; Leads Intelligent IoT Operations

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IoT Industry Veteran and Wireless Standards Leader Gets Behind Compelling Multi-Protocol Platform Provider Already In-Step with All Major Wireless Protocols 

BERKELEY, California – September 28, 2022 – LEXI, the company behind the industry’s most comprehensive IoT platform that’s transforming how both enterprises and consumers manage and automate their Smart Spaces, today announced that John E. Osborne II joins the executive team as Chief Operating Officer (COO). In this role, John will oversee LEXI’s multi-protocol product development, rapid product commercialization, systems innovation, and agile operations as LEXI next-levels IoT platforms from ‘smart’ to Intelligent.

John has an established presence in the IoT domain with deep roots in industry alliances that dictate and steer the future of the Internet of Things. He serves as Chairman Emeritus of the Connectivity Standards Alliance (formerly the Zigbee Alliance) – the international force behind the imminent IoT interoperability standard, Matter. He’s also a fixture within the Z-Wave Alliance and currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Board – working alongside game-changing institutions for the betterment of the connected world. 

Prior to joining LEXI, John was President North America at LEEDARSON – the largest IoT manufacturer in the world. And he gained 20 years of experience at one of the planet’s largest retailers as General Manager for R&D, Operations Research at Kroger.

“John is truly a perfect fit at the perfect time to step in and propel LEXI onto the IoT main stage,” said Scott Cahill, CEO, LEXI. “The future of IoT is multi-protocol, and that’s the realm where John has been leading and living – gathering decades of wireless standards and product expertise, insight and long-running relationships with key players across the IoT universe. Adding him to the LEXI leadership lineup is significant.”  

As COO, John supports LEXI’s business objectives to empower companies to easily and intuitively add and manage connected devices to home and commercial environments. LEXI’s flagship gateway solution is universal, interoperable, multi-protocol and intelligent. Earlier this month, the company profiled additional areas of focus and expansion via the launch of its investment campaign at Republic. 

“My background spans software, hardware, services and standards for smart home, building, retail – you name it,” said John E. Osborne II, COO, LEXI. “I’ve been globetrotting my entire career to educate and grow the IoT market. I meet, speak, listen and collaborate across continents, and I’m pumped to be here at LEXI funneling my learnings, vision and connections into the tremendous team producing tremendous technologies that already have a foothold in the future.”

Follow John here: John E. Osborne II, LinkedIn

Track LEXI as the company settles into orbit within the forthcoming multi-protocol universe: LEXI, LinkedIn

Be part of the charge into the IoT’s next frontier: LEXI’s Republic Campaign page

About LEXI®

LEXI offers the ultimate gateway to the IoT universe. Our intelligent IoT platform is flexible, future-proof, and designed to empower companies to easily and intuitively add and manage Smart Devices for the home, building, city and agriculture. Our executive team is involved at the board level within leading global standards bodies that are charting the course for the connected future. Built by design to work with ALL leading ecosystems*, ALL major wireless protocols** and to bridge competitive third-party products, our Universal IoT Gateway is unrivaled, the LEXI Mobile App is comprehensive yet uncomplicated, and our U.S.-based cloud services were built by us from the ground up, enabling LEXI to deliver truly unique functionality at up to 90% cost savings over all our competitors. Learn more about the LEXI IoT Edge-to-Cloud Platform and other intelligent advantages at lexi.tech.

*Supports Amazon Alexa®, Google Home®, HomeKit®, IFTTT® & Samsung SmartThings®

**Far-reaching and future-ready: 900MHz, Bluetooth, LoRa, Wi-Fi, Zigbee, Z-Wave plus OTA to BLE Mesh, Thread and Matter

Contact: Caroline Gick, LEXI Marketing/PR, pr@lexi.tech

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