ZigBee is the innovation behind the SmartThings Hub, Philips hue illumination as well as many other house automation modules as well as sensors.
We asked Mark Walters, VP of strategic advancement at the ZigBee alliance to tell us about their latest common as well as what the possibilities are for cheaper devices…
Hi Mark, can you sum up what the ZigBee alliance is in a couple of sentences for us?
The ZigBee alliance creates, preserves as well as delivers specifications, requirements as well as solutions for the wireless Web of things (IoT). We’re a non-profit association comprised of 425 business from around the world that are working together to produce open, worldwide requirements that define the IoT.
Can you provide us some concept of the popularity of ZigBee, for example exactly how many exactly how many different products are offered as well as what’s the general worldwide set up base of devices?
That is a excellent concern as well as one that is a bit difficult to response up until we define the utilize of the word ZigBee. If we take ZigBee to mean all IEEE802.15.4 radios that are shipped with a networking stack specified by the ZigBee alliance including the RF4CE specification, eco-friendly Power specification, pro specification as well as IP specification it is more than 400,000,000 units in the year 2015. since the majority of these applications are not licensed or top quality by the Alliance, it is difficult to state exactly how many different manufacturers they represent or exactly how many different product types are involved. We do understand there are products based on ZigBee specs on every continent, in area as well as under the oceans. The ZigBee alliance has licensed over 1500 different products to 10 different stack or application profiles as well as this represents over 150 different manufacturers.
What are the different ZigBee profiles as well as which ones associate finest to the wise home?
Specific to the wise house the most prominent profiles are ZigBee wise energy 1.x, ZigBee house Automation 1.x, ZigBee Light link as well as RF4CE. ZigBee wise energy products include meters, tons switches, thermostats, illumination as well as a few other gadgets – as well as they all share the ZigBee pro fit together networking stack as well as a certificate-based ECC security scheme. house Automation as well as Light link products include thermostats, door locks, sensors, illumination as well as illumination controls, LED bulbs, tons controls, window shade as well as irrigation controls as well as many other unique devices. all of these products share the ZigBee pro fit together networking stack as well as a few different key-based security schemes. There are many entertainment remote controls based on the RF4CE stack provided by the alliance as well.
What’s new in ZigBee v3.0 as well as exactly how does this impact the IoT world?
ZigBee 3.0 is the very first single unified, open as well as total wireless IoT product advancement solution of its kind. It develops on as well as unifies ZigBee alliance requirements already proven across numerous millions of shipped gadgets utilized to produce wise solutions for homes, buildings as well as cities. It effects the IoT world, since up up until now the IoT market has been fragmented into separate vertical market segments – each with its own product requirements – making it difficult to supply interoperable products as well as solutions. ZigBee 3.0 solves this issue by unifying open, worldwide requirements all the method from the physical to the application layer as well as providing accreditation as well as branding programs for improved interoperability across a growing variety of market segments. This opens the door to a new age of improved communication as well as interoperability between products utilized in linked homes, intelligent buildings, wise cities as well as other applications.
What’s the Alliance’s view on Thread, the AllSeen alliance as well as the other bodies trying to produce interoperability requirements as well as what can ZigBee integrate with currently?
We have revealed a cooperation with the thread group aimed at putting a ZigBee alliance top quality as well as licensed solution based on the thread networking protocol as well as the ZigBee Consolidated Applications library into the market at the end of this year. We are working with the market frameworks – AllSeen, OIC as well as now I assumption OFC – to insure there is a tight mapping of ZigBee gadget descriptions as well as behaviours on to the upper layer frameworks such as AllJoyn as well as IoTivity.
You just recently revealed a partnership with EnOcean to produce an open, worldwide spec for energy harvesting wireless communication technology. What kind of products is this likely to give market?
We revealed the inclusion of existing EnOcean alliance devices profilesinto the ZigBee 3.0 ecosystem operating in the 2.4GHz band. This brings the gadget types as well as functionalities of 12 years of EnOcean energy harvesting experience to a much wider audience as well as provides for interaction between these gadgets as well as behaviors as well as all of the gadgets as well as gadget behaviors in the ZigBee Consolidated Applications Library. As to what gadget types this will give the market, I’m sure the common already widely known sensors as well as actuators discovered in the EnOcean sub-GHz solution will discover their method over to the 3.0 ecosystem. What will be truly fascinating will be what new gadgets will be produced for the new broader, more consumer-centric markets. I expect more security as well as presence-type sensors, as well as I’m sure we’ll see many new things I can’t even conceptualize as we make this innovation offered to a much wider market.
ZigBee operates on a variety of frequencies (2.4 GHz, 900 MHz, as well as 868 MHz). What is each utilized for?
There are many networking specs made offered by the ZigBee Alliance. The prominent RF4CE network specification for low latency point-to-point communication operates in the 2.4GHz band. The prominent energy harvesting protocol – eco-friendly Power – operates in the 2.4GHz band. all of the “ZigBee” top quality ZigBee pro mesh-based products operate in the 2.4GHz band. all of the present IP-based ZigBee protocols operate in the 2.4GHz band. We are releasing a version of the ZigBee pro fit together networking operating in the 868 band for the U.K. wise energy market, however this will not be top quality ZigBee. We will be releasing a community area networking specification based on the IEEE 802.15.4 G common operating in the sub-GHz bands however this as well will not be top quality ZigBee. The ZigBee brand name is reserved for ZigBee pro fit together solutions operating in the 2.4GHz band.
Samsung’s SmartThings system feels like the very first mass-market ZigBee powered product to hit the UK. will we see more diy gadgets such as this soon as well as can you get below the present £30 cost for a sensor?
We expect the popularity for ZigBee pro fit together products, including system platforms like SmartThings, to continue to grow. With the release of ZigBee 3.0 as well as the consolidation of the previous private requirements into one interoperable ecosystem we expect this growth to accelerate. ZigBee 3.0’s strengthened network security, backwards compatibility as well as single ecosystem interoperability will bring new entrants into the U.K. market, as well as as volumes go up I believe it is fair to expect costs to drop.
What’s the very best location to discover out can people discover out more about ZigBee?Thanks, inspect out this link for more info – www.zigbee.org
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