ZigBee Resource Guide 2012 - (Page 3)
ALLIANCE UPDATE
Connect Your Internet of Things
By Bob Heile, Chairman • ZigBee Alliance
In October, 2012 we’ll celebrate the 10th anniversary of ZigBee. Throughout these past years we’ve been carefully fine tuning ZigBee and adding smart standards that help more people control more devices. Throughout the years, ZigBee remains the only standards-based wireless technology that was specifically conceived and precisely designed to provide low-cost, very low-power wireless sensor and control network solutions for the widest variety of devices. The ability to connect up to 65,000 devices into a single network is unbeatable. These attributes are ideal for connecting the things we use every day to control lighting, consumer electronic devices, manage our energy and increase our comfort, convenience and security. When you connect all of those things, you create an Internet of Things communicating their status and giving you the ability to easily control them from anywhere in the world with just the push of a button on your smartphone. In the ever growing wireless space, it’s important to know that ZigBee technology is not being re-purposed to connect your Internet of Things, it does so naturally without compromising on security and reliability.
Internet of Energy Things
Internet of Lighting Things
ZigBee Building Automation and ZigBee Home Automation provide professionally installed lighting control capabilities. While that appeals to some consumers, others like the thrill of doing it themselves. This year, we introduced a new standard, ZigBee Light Link. ZigBee Light Link products give consumers an unprecedented level of control over the widest variety of lighting options available for comfort, security and energy savings. It allows consumers to rapidly adopt efficient LED lighting even before the phase out of incandescent bulbs. Consumers can connect all of their lights and control them with their smart phone, tablets, computer or household remote controls in ways they have never been able to do before. They can also create lighting scenes for watching movies, romantic dinners, children doing homework and much more. By installing smart sensors, they can save energy by turning off lights quickly when kids leave a room, plus use light sensors to turn lights off or on based on available daylight.
Internet of ZigBee Certified Things
For many of us, our world revolves around work and home. Today, ZigBee Home Automation and ZigBee Smart Energy, are unarguably the ZigBee Alliance’s flagship standards and are the model for energy management and efficiency visions held by utilities and energy service providers around the world. ZigBee Smart Energy is the first and only available Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Home Area Network (HAN) standard. It’s found in millions of smart meter deployments around the world, and provides consumers with the ability to take charge of their utility bills and their energy consumption. Supported by an alwaysgrowing ZigBee Certified product list, ZigBee Smart Energy offers a wide selection of more than 225 ZigBee Certified products. Consumers and businesses have options today to control their energy with ZigBee Home Automation and the newly released ZigBee Building Automation, which was completed in the fall of 2011. ZigBee Building Automation provides a complementary commercial energy management solution plus integration into existing BACnet systems for building management. In fact, ZigBee Building Automation is the only wireless mesh network authorized by BACnet. ZigBee Home Automation creates truly smart homes that help consumers manage not only their energy use, but also enjoy new comfort and security conveniences. It positions them to expand their network investment to add other ZigBee devices to their network, allowing them to control more of their world by creating their very own Internet of Things. There are many products to choose from, with ZigBee Home Automation now offering more than 65 ZigBee Certified products.
ZigBee Resource Guide • 2012 Edition
To create an Internet of Things, you need devices you can trust to perform their duties consistently. To meet this challenge, the ZigBee Alliance created the ZigBee Certified program to fuel the expansion of the Internet of Things around the world. Products proudly displaying the ZigBee Certified product logo were independently tested by impartial professional testing laboratories. Each product is carefully tested to ensure it offers all features and performance criteria established by our standards. The tests also demonstrate that every product is able to operate with other products made by different manufacturers, giving businesses and consumers the confidence to create their own Internet of Things using a variety of products that fit their needs. ZigBee Certified products now number more than 500 across a variety of ZigBee market standards: ZigBee Building Automation, ZigBee Home Automation, ZigBee Light Link, ZigBee Network Devices, ZigBee Remote Control, ZigBee Smart Energy and ZigBee Telecom Services. The ZigBee Alliance is the leader in the ever expanding home energy management market today. For tomorrow, ZigBee offers a unified system of control for the growing Internet of Things, providing solutions for lighting, health care and retail, to name a few. Unlike the late arrivals to this space who are forced to stretch themselves in an attempt to become something they're not, support for the Internet of Things is ingrained into the very essence of ZigBee, making it not just the right tool, but also the smart choice.
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of ZigBee Resource Guide 2012
ZigBee Resource Guide 2012
Table of Contents
Connect Your Internet of Things
ZigBee in Home Energy Management… Where Next?
Standards Overview
ZigBee Alliance Members
Resource Guide
Advertising Index
Market News
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