ZigBee
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ZigBee, is a wireless open standard and a competing protocol to Bluetooth, which fall under wireless personal area network (WPAN) classification. It is a suite of protocols that covers from the Physical layer, Network layer to the Application layer. The physical layer is an implementation of IEEE 802.15.4 (Bluetooth is covered under IEEE 802.15.1). It is promoted by the ZigBee Alliance, which also controls the specification. The main application is for low power, low data rate wireless sensor networks (WSN).
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Technical Information
ZigBee is based on radio frequency (RF) technology and mesh networking. It is intended to be used for home entertainment and monitoring sensors, mobile services such as m-payment and m-healthcare, commercial building monitoring such as HVAC and access control. The current push is for industrial plants where low cost and long battery life remote sensors are required for process control and preventative machine maintenance.
Standards
IEEE 802.15.4
Market
With the WSN market grow to estimated $4.6 billion in 2011, up from $500 million in 2007; ZigBee is a strong contender to become the standard for WSN. Companies can adopt this protocol into its products in an attempt to gain the market share. Also, industrials plants can gain the benefits from better monitoring and control of process, thanks to the lost cost and easy of deployment of wireless sensor networks based on ZigBee.
Current deployments
See also
References
- Test
External links
- Test
