That's where Zigbee comes in to literally save the day. When shopping around for smart home products, you'll likely see a sea ...

Renesas has assembled the hardware and software required by ZigBee and IEEE802.15.4 MAC short range wireless communication network technologies as ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 MAC solutions, and provides total ...

Technologists have never had trouble coming up with potential applications for wireless sensors. In a home security system, for example, wireless sensors would be much easier to install than sensors ...

Not all wireless networking environments are created equal. An enterprise with mobile workers firing data back and forth, for example, has very different needs than a hospital outfitted with wireless ...

A San Diego start-up apparently is the first company with commercially available tools for connecting everything from smoke detectors to heart monitors over low-power wireless nets based on the IEEE ...

Imagine a golf course that can sense rainfall, and adjust the automatic sprinkler system to delay a scheduled watering session or focus on parts of the course that didn’t get as much rain as others.

Matt Perkins serves as CTO for Awarepoint. Prior, he spent 10 years at Motorola as Technical Director of the Things-to-Things Research Center, where he was responsible for aligning business ...

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 ...

Alliance reaches milestone as it approves a standard specification for the ZigBee wireless network. The ZigBee Alliance has ratified the first ZigBee specification, making a reality the development ...

Bluetooth and ZigBee have much in common. Both are types of IEEE 802.15 “wireless personal-area networks,” or WPANs. Both run in the 2.4-GHz unlicensed frequency band, and both use small form factors ...

Right now, as you kick back on your couch and daydream about your next smart home upgrade, you may not realize it, but you’re awash in data. From Wi-Fi-enabled thermostats to Bluetooth-accessible door ...

A group of leading technology companies will meet this week to discuss and further develop an emerging wireless networking technology with an unconventional name, ZigBee. The ZigBee Alliance, ...