Is Zigbee the Next Bluetooth?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday December 1, 2005 @10:02AM from the rise-or-fall-of-another-wireless-technology dept.

bz asks: "I work for a small product development company that is considering the use of RF. Naturally, it seems that it would be easier to use a proprietary protocol rather than some of the standards on the market. We are restricted by small code space and low power. The Zigbee protocol needs more memory than we would like to give up. Naturally, if Zigbee is going to become ubiquitous, we would like to sacrifice the extra memory and jump on the bandwagon. However, if it is only going to be as popular as Bluetooth, we would prefer to pass. Is Zigbee going to succeed, or is it likely to follow along the low road that Bluetooth has already paved?"

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Ask Slashdot by ThePepe · 2005-12-01 10:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Hey Slashdot, what are tomorrow's winning lotto numbers?
1. Re:Ask Slashdot by bersl2 · 2005-12-01 10:21 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  42, 42, 42, 42, 42, and 42
Naturally... by Saeed+al-Sahaf · 2005-12-01 10:24 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Indeed.

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Is Zigbee the Next Bluetooth? by Leroy_Brown242 · 2005-12-01 13:05 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Not with a name like that.

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