ZigBee 3.0 – Facilitating the ‘Internet of Things’

March 1, 2016

As we move toward a more connected, ‘smarter’ world through the medium of wireless network technology, the challenge is to achieve the standardization of this technology. Standardization is necessary to facilitate a simple user experience in terms of product choice, set-up, and operation, including the inter-operation of products from different manufacturers. These are essential ingredients for consumer confidence and acceptance. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi have established themselves as standards in the device-to-device and high data-rate domains, such as audio and video streaming, but the low-power, low data-rate domain of monitoring and control remains open. ZigBee has emerged as one of the leading standards in this arena and looks set to form the basis of the lowpower wireless world with the advent of ZigBee 3.0. This new version builds on the existing ZigBee standard but unifies the market-specific application profiles to allow all devices to be wirelessly connected in the same network, irrespective of their market designation and function.

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