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I took a quick look at the Gateway white paper, and I have to say that it looks ...
ZigBee gets gateway specification
7/27/2011 2:22 PM EDT
SAN JOSE, Calif. – The ZigBee Alliance has released ZigBee Gateway, its tenth standard and the first in a new family of planned ZigBee Network Device standards.
ZigBee Gateway defines a low cost ZigBee Pro device that lets service providers, businesses and consumers link to the Internet. Future ZigBee Network Device standards will define bridges and range extenders.
ZigBee Gateway supports existing ZigBee standards in areas such as building and home automation, health care, retail, smart energy and telecom. The spec also will be covered under the existing ZigBee certification program.
"ZigBee networks today routinely access the Internet and ZigBee Gateway makes the job of integrating Internet connectivity simple, especially for developers with little networking experience," said Bob Heile, chairman of the ZigBee Alliance, speaking in a press statement.
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chanj
7/27/2011 2:37 PM EDT
This will definitely open up more market opportunity. Is there any compliance certification laboratory?
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goafrit
7/27/2011 3:49 PM EDT
Not yet. Do we really need one?
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Luis Sanchez
7/27/2011 4:45 PM EDT
Just went in to the next page:
http://zigbee.org/Products/ZigBeeCertifiedProgram.aspx
and could confirm that indeed the labs are running the necessary tests for a product to certify it for ZigBee.
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goafrit
7/27/2011 8:17 PM EDT
awesome
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Luis Sanchez
7/27/2011 4:57 PM EDT
Now that smart grid and home automation is happening it is very important that a Gateway spec. is built for ZigBee devices. Has anyone heard of a mobile phone with ZigBee? I think at home automation, ZigBee will have to have a place in the mobile phones. Will there be problems in bluetooth - Wifi - ZigBee coexistance? I bet. It's my impression that Bluetooth owns much of the market that ZigBee intents to step on. Will ZigBee ever make it... what do you think?
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kinnar
7/27/2011 11:36 PM EDT
This has opened so many opportunities, using this feature one can make web servers running in ZigBee coverage area this was information sharing will become very easy even without wifi.
But in the mean time if bluetooth also comes with a gateway specification it will be preferred protocol for mobile devices as it is already having more deployment.
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Dave.Dykstra
7/28/2011 1:21 AM EDT
Looks like a good step forward for ZigBee. Could become very interesting with the coexistence issues with WiFi and Bluetooth as Luis pointed out.
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alihere
7/28/2011 6:50 AM EDT
Zigbee Alliance now moving very close towards smart grid. Gateway spec will be handy.
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les000000
7/28/2011 12:59 PM EDT
can anyone help me out..am new to zigbee.want to learn it.where can i get goog materials?
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rick.merritt
7/28/2011 2:56 PM EDT
The general ZigBee Alliance links in the story are a great place to start, les00000. What are you looking for?
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LarryM99
7/31/2011 8:21 PM EDT
I took a quick look at the Gateway white paper, and I have to say that it looks like they are on a good path. Specifying SOAP and REST interfaces should make it very easy for non-embedded programmers to access these networks. I am going to have to bookmark this for future projects. Thanks much.
Larry M.
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green_is_now
8/10/2011 4:10 PM EDT
Will it support all the bandwidth needed for a smarthome?
11 story condo complex?
Office building?
How does its BW hold up when other standards use BW allocated in free BW zones?
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