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Thread (network protocol)
Low-power wireless mesh networking protocol for the Internet of things
Thread (network protocol)
Thread is an IPv6-based, low-power mesh networking technology for Internet of things (IoT) products. It is built on the IEEE 802.15.4 radio standard and uses 6LoWPAN to carry IPv6 packets over low-power, low-bandwidth links. Often used as a transport for the home-automation connectivity standard Matter (the combination being known as Matter over Thread), the protocol has seen increased use for connecting low-power and battery-operated smart-home devices. Because every Thread device is individually IP-addressable, application data can be routed to and from the wider network without an application-layer gateway; this distinguishes Thread from technologies such as Zigbee that share the same radio but are not natively IP-based. Thread defines only the networking layers and specifies no application layer of its own, leaving that role to standards such as Matter or to vendor-specific stacks. Thread originated at Nest Labs, which began developing it around 2011 as a proprietary networking layer...
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