We bring together experts and enthusiasts from both academia and industry to work on a shared vision: bringing this novel technique to real-world, practical use-cases. OpenSTX is open to all contributors and governed transparently, reflecting our commitment to openness and technical rigor.
Our mission is to drive innovation in low-power wireless by developing a standardized protocol based on synchronous transmissions: OpenSTX. We believe OpenSTX has the potential to transform networking and communications, particularly in use-cases where synchronization or mobility are paramount, unlocking unprecedented gains in reliability, latency, and energy efficiency. We aim to translate over a decade of cutting-edge research into a practical, vendor-neutral specification that enables robust wireless performance at scale.
The OpenSTX Foundation is a community-driven initiative where researchers, implementers, and system designers come together to build the foundation for the next generation of wireless networking. Our community spans academia and industry, from wireless protocol designers to embedded engineers and system architects. We are open to all contributors—whether you’re deploying wireless control in the field or experimenting with STX in the lab. By uniting academia’s cutting-edge ideas with industry’s practical insights, the OpenSTX community ensures that our standard is both innovative and grounded in real-world needs.
We see interoperability as essential, not optional. The OpenSTX Foundation is committed to creating a common protocol layer that can work across different radios, platforms, and use cases—from industrial automation to smart sensing. Our architecture is modular by design, with clean interfaces between the core STX engine, radio abstraction layers, and higher-layer integrations like IPv6. By focusing on standard interfaces and rigorous testing, we aim to ensure that STX-based systems from different vendors and research groups can interoperate out of the box.
OpenSTX is just getting started, but we’re moving quickly. Our near-term priorities include releasing an initial reference architecture, defining the core STX specification, and building a set of interoperable protocol modules. From there, we’ll focus on open-source implementations, validation on testbeds, and support for key features like security, localization, and Internet integration. Longer term, we envision OpenSTX as the default networking option for mission-critical wireless systems—open, deterministic, and built to last.
