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The Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) is a consortium founded by Intel, Dell, Samsung and Broadcom among others to promote standards for the development of the Internet of Things. Its stated goal is "defining a common communications framework based on industry standard technologies to wirelessly connect and intelligently manage the flow of information among personal computing and emerging IoT devices, regardless of form factor, OS, or service provider."

In early 2015, the OIC released a specification called IoTivity, an open source framework implementing the OIC Standards for device-to-device connectivity.

Effective January 1, 2016, the OIC acquired the assets of the UPnP Forum. The agreement is designed to streamline and consolidate efforts around both organizations' technologies and infrastructure, leading to increased alignment on standardization for the Internet of Things (IoT).

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