Z-Wave protocol specification now public

The Z-Wave wireless home-automation protocol has been releasedto the public. In years past, the specification was only available topurchasers of the Z-Wave Alliance's development kit, forcingopen-source implementations to reverse-engineer the protocol. Theofficial pressrelease notes that there are several such projects, including OpenZWave; Z-Wave support is alsovital to higher-level Internet-of-Things abstraction systems like AllJoyn.