Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet, predicted last week that the ZigBee wireless standard would be hugely successful -- which makes sense, as his company Polaris Ventures, has a stake in its ...

Wireless LAN, or Wi-Fi, is based on the IEEE 802.11 standard first approved in July, 1997. It was originally designed to provide wireless Ethernet connectivity for computers, eliminating the need for ...

Fabless wireless chip provider Jennic is on its way to making ZigBee networks a reality. The Sheffield, UK-based company has launched a large commercial ZigBee network evaluation product. The product ...

Imagine a golf course that can sense rainfall, and adjust the automatic sprinkler system to delay a scheduled watering session or focus on parts of the course that didn’t get as much rain as others.

ZigBee, the emerging wireless technology that could give billions of electronic devices a connection to the Internet, has moved another small step towards wide-scale commercial deployment. A ...

If you would like to start your journey by setting up your own home automation system, Zigbee, offers a robust wireless protocol, and has been transforming the way we control and automate our homes.

A group of leading technology companies will meet this week to discuss and further develop an emerging wireless networking technology with an unconventional name, ZigBee. The ZigBee Alliance, ...

The ZigBee Alliance, an association of companies working to enable wirelessly networked monitoring and control products based on an open global standard, announced on April 11 four ZigBee-compliant ...

TOKYO – Oki Electric Industry began running an experimental ZigBee-based sensor network in Japan’s western port city of Kobe on Monday, the company said the same day. The company installed a network ...

As a recent Network World article noted, wired sensor networks have been around for decades, with an array of gauges measuring temperature, fluid levels, humidity and other attributes on pipelines, ...

Bluetooth and ZigBee have much in common. Both are types of IEEE 802.15 “wireless personal-area networks,” or WPANs. Both run in the 2.4-GHz unlicensed frequency band, and both use small form factors ...