Monday, 6 August 2012

Intro to Zigbee

Zigbee is a low power spin off of WiFi.

Bluetooth is made with mobile phones as its centre of universe enabling media transfer at rates in excess of 1 Mbps while Zigbee is built with emphasis on low data rate control system sensors featuring slower data of just 250 kbps.


Zigbee devices can form networks with Mesh, Star and Generic Mesh topologies among themselves. The network can be expanded as a cluster of smaller networks. A ZigBee network can have three types of nodes: Zigbee Coordinator (ZBC), Zigbee router (ZBR) and Zigbee End Device (ZBE) each having some unique property.

There can be only one ZBC in a network

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