ADT joins Connectivity Standards Alliance board of directors

ADT Inc. (NYSE: ADT) has joined the Board of Directors of the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), the organization behind the Matter, Zigbee, and Aliro connectivity standards, according to a press release from the company.

Alexander Crettenand, ADT's VP of Software Engineering, and Tai Nguyen, Senior Director of Firmware Engineering, will represent ADT on the CSA board. Other board members include Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and LG.

The CSA develops interoperability standards for connected home devices. ADT said its board participation is aimed at ensuring security-related performance requirements are incorporated into those foundational standards.

Gilles Drieu, CTO of ADT, said in the release: "Open standards are the foundation for a smart home that truly works for the people living in it. As the industry embraces Matter and other shared protocols, our role is to make sure security, the layer where seconds matter most, is built into that foundation from the start, not added on afterward."

ADT is headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla., and provides security and smart home solutions to residential and small business customers in the U.S.

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