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URL:
http://www.zigbee.org/zigbee_new/index.asp
“The ZigBeeTM Alliance is an association
of companies working together to enable reliable, cost-effective, low-power,
wirelessly networked, monitoring and control products based on an open global
standard.”
Zigbee is an emerging standard being introduced as
IEEE 802.15.4. It has the following design requirements:
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Data rates of 250 kb/s, 40 kb/s and 20 kb/s.
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Star or Peer-to-Peer operation.
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Support for low latency devices.
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CSMA-CA channel access.
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Dynamic device addressing.
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Fully handshaked protocol for transfer reliability.
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Low power consumption.
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Frequency Bands of Operation
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16 channels in the 2.4GHz ISM band
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10 channels in the 915MHz ISM band
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1 channel in the European 868MHz band.
Keywords:
Zigbee, RF, Monitoring, Control, IEEE, IEEE 802, Pending standard
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