Understanding ZigBee. After 10 years and millions of implementations every year, ZigBee standards prove you can rely on the widest variety of smart and easy-to-use products for just about anywhere you work, live or play.
Our innovative standards are designed to let product manufacturers help their customers create their own Internet of Things and M2M wireless sensor networks to gain greater control of, and even improve, everyday activities. ZigBee lets you easily and cost-effectively add intelligent new features that improve the efficiency, safety, security, reliability and convenience of your products. You can help your customers save both energy and money, or give them the tools they need to gain control of their homes. It's even possible to help people maintain their independence and allow them to closely monitor their health and fitness. Understanding ZigBee. ZigBee for wireless lighting control. Advances in color LED technology and wireless networking are enabling new possibilities for lighting control by making it easier and more cost effective to retrofit modern illumination systems while also making the lighting system’s controllers more convenient to use from anywhere in or around the building.
Until now this market has been served by a range of solutions each with its own particular strengths and weaknesses. One problem is that consumers have no simple way to ensure products from different manufacturers will work together which makes it extremely difficult to extend a home lighting system. Additionally, some complex commissioning processes required for such networks often means that users struggle to add new devices, even with products from the same manufacturer.
ZigBee. ZigBee is used in applications that require only a low data rate, long battery life, and secure networking.
ZigBee has a defined rate of 250 kbit/s, best suited for periodic or intermittent data or a single signal transmission from a sensor or input device. Applications include wireless light switches, electrical meters with in-home-displays, traffic management systems, and other consumer and industrial equipment that requires short-range wireless transfer of data at relatively low rates.
The technology defined by the ZigBee specification is intended to be simpler and less expensive than other WPANs, such as Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. ZigBee networks are secured by 128 bit symmetric encryption keys.