More than twenty tech giants have signed up to the AllSeen Alliance, which aims to enable various home appliances, cars and computers to connect and interact with one another.

The AllSeen Alliance's ambitious "Internet of Things" project aims to allow diverse appliances to seamlessly discover, connect and interact with one another other irrespective of their manufacturer or the operating system they run.

Jim Zemlin, executive director of Linux Foundation, said that the framework would run on software platforms like Linux, iOS, Android and Windows, including embedded variants.

Speaking on the topic, Zemlin added, "Once the APIs that comprise the interoperability layer are opened up, there will be all kinds of opportunities to add services on top."

He added that more products, equipped with the code, could be announced at the next CES.

The AllSeen Alliance is now backed by the Linux Foundation. The list of its members companies includes Cisco, Qualcomm, Haier, D-Link, LG Electronics, Sharp and Panasonic.

The software framework was originally developed by renowned chip maker Qualcomm as a project dubbed AllJoyn, a networking system capable of working on top of existing software to enable different manufacturers' devices compatible.