Monthly Archives: August 2009

ZigBee traction from Control4

This news announcement today from Control4 is a really good sign of ZigBee progressing well.  Much of the new ZigBee Home Automation profile originates from Control4′s involvement in the the technology since 2005.  They also have two of the first … Continue reading

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Alliance officially releases HA

As we anticipated several weeks ago, today the ZigBee Alliance have finally announced official release of the Home Automation public profile, as well as the first 17 certified products. This is great news for the technologies progress into the home, … Continue reading

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Home Automation progress

We’ve recently heard some information that ZigBee Home Automation is ready and products are to be announced shortly. The ZigBee HA profile has been around for a long time but made way for the more ‘current’ Smart Energy, which has … Continue reading

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ZigBee Healthcare

Great news that ZigBee Healthcare is now being endorsed by the Continua Health Alliance, as its new low power local area network standard. ZigBee is now making headways into several major new markets, including Health, Consumer Electronics (RF4CE), Home Automation and … Continue reading

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ZigBee becoming Home Automation standard

In the past two days, both Control4 and HAI have made announcements their to support ZigBee Pro. This signals the move towards an elusive global Home Automation standard, with ZigBee (again) being used as the technology in yet another burgeoning market. Signs … Continue reading

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ZigBee Market Traction

ZigBee is a new & rapidly emerging wireless standard which is soon to pervade all our lives by connecting billions of devices together in what many refer to as the ‘Internet of Things”. Whereas Bluetooth is suited for connecting devices … Continue reading

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Worlds First ZigBee Shop Launches

Today Vesternet are officially launching the worlds first ZigBee eCommerce store. There’s been a lot of momentum around ZigBee technology over the past 12 months with its main driver being the deployment of smart energy installations by utilities. We see … Continue reading

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