The German home appliances giant Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte (BSH) is partnering up with Worldline, a division of the French outsourcing firm Atos, for its connected home strategy, it said on Friday.
Worldline is usually a payments and transactional services operation, but it’s been increasingly getting into the internet of things as well – on Thursday, also at the Berlin tech show IFA, it announced it was joining the EEBus smart home initiative, alongside companies ranging from Bosch and Deutsche Telekom to Intel and the venerable Fraunhofer Institute.
BSH‘s smart home scheme is called Home Connect. It will let users control their appliances using smartphones and tablets through an “open standard”, Worldline said – the outfit will manage the cloud platform gluing everything together, with a claimed focus on security and privacy. Devices will connect through the user’s Wi-Fi router.