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- ZigBee
- A wireless network used for home, building and industrial control. It conforms to the IEEE 802.15.4 wireless standard for low data rate networks. With a maximum speed of...
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ZDNet Resources
- Always-on gets regulatory fast track
- A system based on what I call Always-On technology, using a wireless network as an application platform, is on its way to fast-track government approval. (Picture from Jennic, a Zigbee system maker.) The system is called Oxy-Alert, and it's an adjunct to the OxyView, an in-line oxygen...
- Tags: Oxygen, Monitor, Patient, ZigBee, Always-on, Wireless, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- ZigBee Gateways
- ZigBee is a published specification set of high level communication protocols designed to use small low power digital radios based on the IEEE 804.15.4 standard for Wireless Personal Area Networks WPANs. IEEE 804.15.4 is part of object-oriented architecture IEEE 1451. IEEE 1451 consists of the family standards for a networked...
- Tags: ZigBee, IEEE, IEEE 804.15.4, IEEE 1451, ZigBee Architecture
- White papers 2006-04-28
- 580 mln ZigBee units by 2010
- Over 580 mln ZigBee units will be deployed by 2010, according to Northern Sky Research. The first ZigBee-enabled products will be out in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific in the first quarter with initial deployments in home automation and industrial applications.
- Tags: ZigBee
- Blog posts 2005-11-07
- From 2004 to 2009 ZigBee node shipments to grow at 200% a year
- The market for 802.15.4, a wireless Personal Area Networking technology, or PAN, and the ZigBee specification network layer, is poised for skyrocketing growth, reports In-Stat. On an aggressive basis, 802.15.4 nodes/chipsets could grow by a Compound Annual Growth Rate CAGR of 200% from 2004 to 2009, the high-tech market research...
- Tags: Bluetooth, ZigBee
- Blog posts 2005-06-23
- 85.9 mln wireless sensors by 2010, 85% of them ZigBee
- In its June 2004 Industrial Wireless Sensor Networking report, research firm On World projected that deployed industrial wireless sensor network nodes will increase from 330,000 in 2004 to 85.9 mln in 2010, representing end-user revenues of $2.9 bln. In 2010, ZigBee nodes are projected to comprise 85% of the total,...
- Tags: ZigBee, wireless
- Blog posts 2005-03-04
- 85.9 mln wireless sensors by 2010, 85% of them ZigBee
- In its June 2004 Industrial Wireless Sensor Networking report, research firm On World projected that deployed industrial wireless sensor network nodes will increase from 330,000 in 2004 to 85.9 mln in 2010, representing end-user revenues of $2.9 bln. In 2010, ZigBee nodes are projected to comprise 85% of the total,...
- Tags: ZigBee, wireless
- Blog posts 2005-03-04
- Wireless world abuzz over arrival of ZigBee standard
- The ZigBee Alliance announced late on Tuesday that the first ZigBee specification had been ratified. ZigBee is meant to offer short distance low-speed transmissions at very low power consumption which could be used to give network connections to almost any electronic device. That means countless possibilities for simple control and...
- Tags: ZigBee, Kbps
- Blog posts 2004-12-15
- Wireless world abuzz over arrival of ZigBee standard
- The ZigBee Alliance announced late yesterday that the first ZigBee specification had been ratified. ZigBee is meant to offer short distance low-speed transmissions at very low power consumption which could be used to give network connections to almost any electronic device. That means countless possibilities for simple control and monitoring applications,...
- Tags: Kbps, ZigBee
- Blog posts 2004-12-15
- 100-150 ZigBee chips in every house by 2007
- Fuelled by a rapid rise in home networking, ZigBee IEEE 802.15.4 revenues will rocket by 3400% in the next four years, according to Frost & Sullivan. ZigBee chipset sales reached $18.8 mln in 2004. Revenues are projected to reach $700 mln in 2008. Within the next two to three years,...
- Tags: ZigBee
- Blog posts 2004-11-11
- 19 mln ZigBee units to ship in 2006, 123 mln in 2009
- West Technology Research Solutions has downgraded its predictions for ZigBee chip shipments and now expects gradual growth from 19 mln in 2006 to 123 mln units in 2009. This would put ZigBee at under 20% of the total market, with proprietary variants controlling the rest.
- Tags: ZigBee
- Blog posts 2004-10-16
- 1 mln Zigbee devices will be shipped in 2005, 80 mln in 2006
- About one million devices with ZigBee will be shipped worldwide in 2005, according to ABI Research. This total is likely to zoom to 80 million units by the end of the following year.
- Tags: ZigBee
- Blog posts 2004-08-11
Additional Resources
- Control4 Introduces $499 Home Automation Controller
- Control4 Introduces $499 Home Automation ControllerWe need cheaper prices and easier retrofits. We need to get these down tothe cost of a wireless router, or maybe these feature added to wireless routers. Zigbee will make for easier retrofit, but you will still need one transmitter for each light in...
- Tags: Routers & switches, TV & Home Theater, X10 Wireless Technology, Home Automation controller, Control4, Home Automation
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- Control4 Introduces $499 Home Automation Controller
- Home automation has been the wave of the future for what seems like forever, but it's been more of a gentle wave than something tsunami-strength. But the ability to control lighting, security, and other home systems from a centralized unit is slowly making inroads, and that trend will continue with...
- Tags: Control4, Home Automation, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- 'Sensing' more about what's coming in Windows 7
- 'Sensing' more about what's coming in Windows 7Windows sensors will bring a new management interfaceto set them up, and then they'll crash unexpectedly, and make things stop responding.There'll be a "grandfather" sensor which automatically reboot the machine, and does some protocol sniffing on your box, to make sure that Microsoft...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, sensor, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- Can assistive technology save computing?
- Computing is becoming an old man's game. (Picture from the University of Buffalo. Go Bulls.) Last year just 8,000 people graduated with computing majors, nationwide, the lowest figure in years. Can assistive technology turn that around? Michael Buckley at the University of Buffalo thinks...
- Tags: Computing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- A Wireless Sensor Network Infrastructure for Personal Monitoring
- This paper presents an infrastructure for the deployment of personal applications, based on the monitoring of the users in an unobtrusive way, independently of their location and activities. The infrastructure is based on the ZigBee technology, which allows the deployment of a mesh network. This network is formed by fixed...
- Tags: Mobile, Network, Wireless Sensor Network, Monitoring, Infrastructure, Wireless, University Of Navarra, Advertising & Promotion, Mesh Networking, Marketing, Networking
- White papers 2008-04-28
- Two robotic jellyfish, AquaJelly and AirJelly
- A Design News editor was lucky enough to watch two robotic jellyfish swim and fly at the Hannover Fair in Germany. These two robots, AquaJelly and AirJelly, made by Germany-based Festo company, are using 8 tentacles based on fish fins for propulsion. The AquaJelly has 11 infrared light-emitting diodes and...
- Tags: Signal, AquaJelly, AirJelly, Festo, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- An Earth Day Valentine for smart metering technology
- Welcome to my own personal Earth Day morning nightmare, in which I have just wasted all 10 minutes worth of water trying to get the hot water heater to trigger at my hotel. I have to run a three-hour-long panel session in a mere three hours, and I'm the sort...
- Tags: Echelon, Haaser, Data Centers, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- MGM Mirage's IT green field: RFID meets alcohol; predictive modeling; bandwidth galore
- Very few technology executives ever get a green field to play with. MGM Mirage CIO Tom Peck has an $8 billion green field--actually massive construction project dubbed CityCenter--right in the middle of the Las Vegas strip. Peck was speaking at the Gartner Emerging Technologies Conference in Las...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Information Technology, MGM Mirage, SOA, Modeling, CityCenter, RFID, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Peek into the 'third wave of wireless' with GreenPeak
- OK, this one might seem a little obscure at first, so bear with me. There are two threads involved: the role of wireless technology in energy conservation, interspersed with some intrigue around energy harvesting. The company in question is GreenPeak, which is creating what it calls ultra...
- Tags: Monitor, Battery, Sensor, GreenPeak, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
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