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GreenPeak Enables Low Power and Low Cost ZigBee Smart Home Applications
ZigBee PRO sensor nodes around $5 will accelerate Smart Home offerings by Operators and customer acceptance. GreenPeak Technologies, a leading low power RF-semiconductor company, today announced the availability of a low cost and low power ZigBee solution for end nodes in the Smart Home, allowing Operators to further accelerate market adoption and enabling ZigBee Smart Home solutions that cover the full home and last for up to 10 years without battery replacement. Operators will now be able to offer Smart Home service offerings at a very [...]
ZigBee Alliance and TTC, Japan Sign MoU to Adopt ZigBee IP Specification as a TTC Standard
Agreement represents an important step forward for wider ZigBee adoption in Japan. The ZigBee® Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, and Telecommunications Technology Committee (TTC), a non-profit and private standards development organization on information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Japan, today announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the two standards development organizations to work together [...]
Digi International Deploys 500-Node Internet of Things Network for the Data Sensing Lab at Google I/O
40 million data points from 4,000 data streams delivered via Device Cloud to analyze environmental data. Digi International will take part in deploying over 500 sensor nodes at Google’s developer conference, Google I/O, May 15-17. The Data Sensing Lab project demonstrates how real-time machine-to-machine (M2M) data can provide insight into customer behaviors and preferences. Utilizing Digi’s XBee ZigBee modules and ConnectPort wireless gateways to connect the nodes, sensor data is then collected and managed via Device Cloud by Etherios, [...]
GreenPeak Announces The Year of ZigBee
ZigBee Technology is Backbone of the New Smart, Connected Home. GreenPeak Technologies, a leading low power RF-communication semiconductor company, today announced the year of ZigBee. Worldwide, GreenPeak and other ZigBee semiconductor suppliers are now shipping millions of ZigBee chips every week, making ZigBee the only credible open worldwide standard for the smart home supported by cable and satellite operators and other companies playing in the smart home space. Greg Potter of Multimedia Research Group, says: “ZigBee has been [...]
Microchip Expands Embedded Wireless Portfolio With New Bluetooth®, Wi-Fi® and ZigBee® Products
Expansion Includes PIC32 Bluetooth Digital Audio Kit, Feature-Rich Wi-Fi Modules, IEEE 802.15.4 & Proprietary Radio, and XBee® Compatible Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Modules. Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced a major expansion of its embedded-wireless portfolio from the DESIGN West/Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose. The Bluetooth® additions include the PIC32 Bluetooth Audio Development Kit, featuring modules, stacks and CODECs, and XBee® [...]
New 3G Sensors by Libelium Stream Photos and Video to the Cloud for New Security and Military Applications
Libelium today released a new generation of autonomous 3G sensors equipped with video cameras that enable the development of new security, surveillance and military applications on Waspmote, the wireless sensor network platform for the Internet of Things. These new video camera sensors, in conjunction with the 3G-communication module, allow the creation of sensor nodes that transmit both discrete data gathered by analog and digital sensors and complex streams of real time information, such as photos and video, to servers in the [...]
Silicon Labs Achieves Zigbee® IP Golden Unit Certification
Silicon Labs, a leader in high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, today announced that its Ember ZigBee solutions – silicon devices, software and development tools – have achieved Golden Unit certification from the ZigBee Alliance for the newly released ZigBee IP specification. ZigBee IP is the first open standard for IPv6-based wireless mesh networking solutions, providing seamless, end-to-end Internet connectivity and a scalable architecture to control low-power devices. The new ZigBee IP specification adds network and [...]
Sensinode Announces Availability of Certified Compliant Platform For New ZigBee-IP Standard
Sensinode today announced commercial release of its ZigBee Compliant Platform, concurrent with the release of the new ZigBee-IP specification. Public availability of the specification developed by the ZigBee® Alliance, along with commercial release of platforms compliant with the standard, provides a foundation for low-power, wireless mesh networks supporting “Internet of Things” applications without the need for intermediate gateways. The availability of the ZigBee-IP standard is a major milestone in development of the Internet of [...]
GreenPeak Launches the New GP501 ZigBee Radio Chip
A New Generation of ZigBee Transceivers with Wi-Fi Coexistence Schemes, Deep Packet Inspection and Wake-on-LAN Features. GreenPeak Technologies, a leading semiconductor company in low power RF communication, with a rich offering of communication solutions for Smart Home applications, today announces the GP501, a new generation of ZigBee transceivers which contains a sophisticated coexistence scheme that allows Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and ZigBee chips to work side by side in the same device. The GP501 also contains Deep Packet Inspection allowing [...]
Redpine Signals Introduces First Wireless M2M Combo Chip for The Internet of Things
M2MCombo™ chip RS9113 offers dual-band 11abgn Wi-Fi, dual-mode Bluetooth 4.0, and ZigBee interfaces on a single die for M2M device manufacturers. Redpine Signals, Inc., a leading developer of ultra-low-power and high-performance multi-standard wireless chipsets and systems, today announced the release of its RS9113 M2MCombo™ chip, the first of its kind in the industry. It integrates dual-band 802.11n Wi-Fi, ZigBee, and dual-mode BT 4.0 wireless connectivity, making it the ideal device for universal M2M communications [...]
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