CES brings the first big crop of AllJoyn IoT products

More than a dozen smart-home products at the CES show this week can find and interact with each other through the AllJoyn software framework, one of the major platforms vying to connect the Internet of Things.
The devices include light bulbs, audio systems, an air humidifier and a security camera that can link up to other connected gear. They're the first big batch of products to be certified for AllJoyn interoperability since the first were announced last October: Microsoft's Windows 10 Professional and Surface Pro 3.

Making devices around a home respond to events or adjust themselves to users' needs depends on all the devices communicating at a high level, beyond just sending packets to each other over a network. There isn't a unified way for them to do that yet, but AllJoyn is likely to be one of a few systems that are widely used.