If you haven’t heard about it yet, there’s a new communication protocol coming down the pike and it’s called Lemonbeat. And thanks to a robust demo at the recent World Wide Web Consortium (W3C (News - Alert)) meeting in Japan, it isn’t just a fluffy ideal anymore.
The presentation in front of around 100 IT experts from all over the world was held at the W3C Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee Meeting in Sapporo, Japan. It represents an important step for RWE, Lemonbeat’s creator, towards the standardizing the Lemonbeat smart Device Language. Lemonbeat is designed to be a universal language for IoT devices, and it needs to be able to communicate anywhere, under any conditions, with any smart thing if it is to achieve that goal.
“We were able to demonstrate Lemonbeat in a functional context to present it to the experts. We visually displayed the command signals exchanged by the devices,” said Holger Wellner, managing director, Lemonbeat. “Currently, as far as we know, there is no communication protocol anywhere in the world that is comparable to Lemonbeat.”
The core of the presentation was the fully automatic integration of an additional device into an active device network. The network was reconfigured several times and performed the required functions each time without a single error. The demo impressed the audience quite a bit. Soumya Kanti Datta, Research Engineer, Eurocom/France Telecom (News - Alert), called Lemonbeat “very, very interesting.” Ari Keränen, Senior Researcher, Ericsson, said, “We want to see more.”
In November, RWE made Lemonbeat available for developers and manufacturers in North America. So far, the protocol has only been available as preconfigured chips or software licenses that can be used in various devices. Lemonbeat is a new model for communication protocols that enable different devices to form a network very easily. It is very compact, yet flexible enough to allow it to be adapted to complex applications.
When life gives you Lemonbeat, it looks like you just say thanks.