Zigbee: “Wireless Control That Simply Works”

There are many wireless monitoring and control applications for industrial and home markets which require longer battery life, lower data rates and less complexity than available from existing wireless standards. These standards provide higher data rates at the expense of power consumption, application complexity and cost. What these markets need, in many cases, is a standardsbased wireless technology having the performance characteristics that closely meet the requirements for reliability, security, low power and low cost. This standards-based, interoperable wireless technology will address the unique needs of low data rate wireless control and sensor-based networks.