(iTers News) - Spansion Inc. has joined ZigBee Alliance, an industry consortium for ZigBee standard-setting.

"Spansion is committed to shaping the future of wireless connectivity with smart, innovative and energy efficient technologies," said Dhiraj Handa, senior vice president and general manager of Spansion's Multimarket Microcontroller Business Unit.  "Spansion's scalable low-power microcontrollers, industry leading embedded flash and recently announced "battery-less" energy harvesting products provide compelling building blocks for system integrators combining ZigBee products to enable emerging IoT applications, such as building and home automation, smart energy management, LED lighting control, retail services, sensor fusion and wearable devices."

"We are pleased to welcome Spansion to the Alliance and their commitment to developing interoperable Internet of Things products," said Ryan Maley, Director of Strategic Marketing for the ZigBee Alliance. "We recognize their commitment to providing important enabling technologies such as energy harvesting, which will help drive deployment of IoT solutions."

The ZigBee Alliance is an open, non-profit association of approximately 400 organizations driving development of innovative, reliable and easy-to-use ZigBee standards. The Alliance promotes worldwide adoption of ZigBee as the leading wirelessly networked, sensing and control standard for use in consumer, commercial and industrial areas.