ZigBee Low-Power Wireless Networking

Posted by michael on Friday August 1, 2003 @12:55PM from the bzzz-bzzz dept.

asmithmd1 writes "Do you you have a great idea for a wireless device that really doesn't need the 1 Mbit/sec (and high power consumption) of Bluetooth? Well you will have a new choice soon, ZigBee. Zigbee is the trademark for IEEE 802.15 Personal Area network low data rate standard. Designed to run in low power 8 bit devices at data rates of 20k bits/second, a ZigBee node will run for months if not years on one set of batteries. With heavy hitters like Motorola and Phillips behind it and chips available soon for half the cost of bluetooth, it looks like it will become a reality."

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Re:What's the point? Too slow. by NanoGator · 2003-08-01 14:38 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"What's the point? Too slow. (Score:-1, Interesting) " -- how often do you see a -1, Interesting?

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MOD PARENT UP!!!!!! by Pieroxy · 2003-08-01 15:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

That is so true, I don't even know why I didn't think about it!!!!!

MOD PARENT UP!!!!!!

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