Wireless: Introduction to Thread Silicon Labs: Talking Tech

This episode is an introduction to the Thread wireless mesh networking protocol. Mark Hallam, Field Applications Engineer for Silicon Labs, answers questions to help listeners understand the benefits and challenges when adopting Thread.
Questions:
What is Thread? Why is Thread growing versus other protocols?  Benefits? What are hurdles/difficulties with Thread vs. other solutions? What does Silicon Labs provide to support Thread? Where can people go to learn more? Resources:
https://openthread.io/ https://github.com/openthread https://www.threadgroup.org/