Why do we need ZigBee?
ZigBee is the only wireless standards-based technology: • that addresses the unique needs of remote monitoring & control, and sensory network applications. • enables broad-based deployment of wireless networks with low cost, low power solutions. • provides the ability to run for years on inexpensive primary batteries for a typical monitoring application. • What is new in the latest ZigBee specification update? First, this update to the ZigBee specification offers all the wide-ranging features released in 2006, and it adds new features, giving manufacturers greater flexibility when designing innovative ZigBee products. The features published in 2006 are now known as the ZigBee Feature Set. An expanded set of features known as the ZigBee PRO Feature Set maximizes all the capabilities of the ZigBee Feature Set and facilitates ease-of-use and advanced support for larger networks. All of these new features expand product development options available to manufacturers. The newly released Fea
