How is ZigBee addressing reliability?
ZigBee was designed for the hostile RF environments that routinely exist in mainstream commercial and industrial applications. Utilizing Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum with features including collision avoidance, receiver energy detection, link quality indication, clear channel assessment, acknowledgement, security, support for guaranteed time slots and packet freshness; ZigBee-compliant networks offer OEMs and vendors a highly reliable, standards-based solution.