The ZigBee Alliance is developing the ZigBee Green Power feature set to establish a global, standard technology for self-powered devices operating through energy harvesting techniques. These devices will communicate seamlessly with existing ZigBee and ZigBee PRO networks and will enable maintenance free, environment-friendly products that eliminate the need for wires and batteries to power control devices.
ZigBee Green Power enables new capabilities available to the ZigBee and ZigBee PRO networks. When the ZigBee Green Power standard is made available to Alliance members at the end of 2009, only ZigBee will offer an established, competitive marketplace for deploying switches, sensors and controllers using harvested energy in residential, commercial and industrial environments. Its energy harvesting capabilities will give manufacturers greater flexibility when designing innovative ZigBee products and solutions. Because ZigBee Green Power will work seamlessly with ZigBee and ZigBee PRO networks, it will enjoy all of ZigBee's numerous strengths, including:
- Physical Radio
Uses popular IEEE 802.15.4 standard radios available from numerous suppliers
- 2.4GHz Band
Offers simple global operation vs. country specific radio frequency
- Interference Avoidance
Demonstrated robust performance in noisy radio frequency environments
- Robust Mesh Networking
Makes network set-up and maintenance easy, along with large coverage areas, and renowned reliability
- Security
Takes full advantage of ZigBee's robust security suite
- Certification
Unbiased, independent certification of ZigBee products
- Open Standard
Strong, cost competitive environment versus single-vendor solutions
This addition of ZigBee Green Power to the ZigBee family significantly expands the options available to manufacturers, and expands the already significant abilities of ZigBee. These networks offer superb interference immunity and capabilities to host thousands of devices. With its ultra low-power requirements, ZigBee devices today run on regular batteries for years, eliminating the need for wiring to a power source and offering unparalleled maintenance convenience and installation flexibility.
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