Thread: The Smart Home Protocol

thread is the smart home protocol that promises to make it easy to set up your smart home devices by letting all of them talk to each other, no matter who made them. The way the border router does it automatically isn't standardized, meaning different border routers from different companies might not talk to Each other well. Manufacturers decide if their devices should join existing thread networks or set up their own. Samsung Smart Thing shares its credentials through the phone, but will not joining existing thread networks. It'll let everything join its, but it doesn't join any others yet.