GreenPeak Technologies has introduced a low cost and low power ZigBee solution for end nodes in the Smart Home, allowing operators to further accelerate market adoption. The ZigBee Smart Home ...

The Indesit Company’s Smart Washer, equipped with a Freescale ZigBee ® node, is able to adjust its cycle starting time according to energy cost (in a variable costs environment) and green power ...

The ZigBee addressing discussed so far, PAN IDs, unicasts, groupcasts, and broadcasts, are all about getting data to a node. But ZigBee goes beyond a networking protocol. ZigBee also offers ...

ZigBee is designed for relatively short distances, low-cost implementation and extremely low power consumption. It supports connectivity over a mesh network topology, which makes for exceptional ...

With the ZigBee protocol officially approved in the first quarter of 2005, Microchip's PICDEM™ Z ZigBee demonstration kit provides a timely means of starting a new design. The kit includes two ...

Over the last few years, a great expansion in the variety of remote control devices has occurred in our day-to-day life. A few years back, IR remotes for the TV were the only such devices in the homes ...

Ultra-wideband technology (UWB) allows for low-power wireless communication, ideal for wireless sensor nodes. The IEEE 802.15.4 standardization committee who defined the MAC and physical layers ...

You’re on the eleventh floor of your hotel and the fire alarm sounds. Everybody freaks out. Is the fire as real as the alarm is loud? How on earth will you find the nearest exit? Why aren’t there ...

Single-chip solutions have been the holy grail of ZigBee developers. Well, that grail has arrived. Ember's EM250 combines a 16-bit microcontroller (MCU) with the company's 2.4-GHz ZigBee transceiver ...

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. ZigBee, which is named after the dance honeybees do to communicate to other honeybees, was developed and standardized ...

How do you launch a new networking standard? Once, they just arrived on the desks of engineers. Now networking is part of everyone's lives and even Dixons' sales staff have heard of 802.11, that's no ...

How large can a ZigBee network be? In a few years, a typical house might conceivably have 100 or more devices, while a large office building or factory could contain tens of thousands of ZigBee nodes.