Widespread adoption would ensure that everything on the internet could be linked and operate according to the same logic. "I firmly believe that this greater interconnectedness among devices will dramatically accelerate innovation within the IoT industry," said Dr. Dietrich Gemmel, Managing Director of RWE Effizienz. The ability to fully utilize Lemonbeat, or to combine Lemonbeat Smart Device Language with other protocols such as Bluetooth, WLAN, or Thread, is seen as key to its proliferation.

The solution stems from experience gained through home automation, and several of these products already use Lemonbeat. "We have leveraged our technological advantage as the market leader in Germany to develop a common communication concept for the full bandwidth of the Internet of Things," said Gemmel.

The initial offering is a chip and software licenses that enable rapid deployment of Lemonbeat.