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ZigBee:
Ready for Products Today
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The Choice for Energy
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ZigBee Alliance 2008 ZigBee Resource
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ZigBee: Ready for Products Today
Thanks to the efforts of our global membership, the world is recognizing ZigBee
as the global wireless language connecting dramatically different devices that are
Editor & Publisher
designed to improve everyday life. Very soon, ZigBee will begin touching the lives David Webster
of people as they begin using a variety of products designed to help them save
energy, increase convenience and improve safety. They will use products built by
any number of the Alliance’s more than 250 members. These members are Director of Content
Shannon M. Given
companies from almost every continent. They are small businesses, as well as multi-national corpora-
tions with global brands. Regardless of size, they share a vision for ZigBee and work together
everyday to provide a variety of ingredients needed to create ZigBee products and reinforce an Associate Editor
already enviable supply chain that ensures quality, choice and competition. Jeremy Martin
Digi International, the leader in device networking for business, develops reliable
products and technologies to connect and securely manage local or remote electronic
devices over the network or via the web. With over 20 million ports shipped worldwide
since 1985, Digi offers the highest levels of performance, flexibility and quality.
But, unlike the cells in a spreadsheet, the nodes can react to changes
in their environment. If a disturbance in their communication
occurs, they can re-route messages or notify a higher intelligence of
something that cannot be dynamically corrected. It’s that hidden,
powerful, network system that supports this capability.
The Killer App is the one that will enable you to create your
application by not having to pay attention to all of the complex
In Search of the Killer App for Wireless operations that underlie WSN technology, nor requiring you to use
Sensor Networks complex coding and debugging systems. Making this technology
accessible and usable to millions of creative and imaginative people
So what is missing? Perhaps the better question is, what is the from around the world will cause the next ‘inflection point’ in the
barrier that prevents WSN from realizing its explosive potential? We history of computing. We are at that point now.
already grasp the power of harnessing sensors and the ability to
interact with the physical world with intelligent, distributed commu- David Ewing is vice president of Engineering at Synapse. He is
nication nodes. We can envision thousands of applications across responsible for product strategy. He holds a BSEE from Auburn
home, industry, manufacturing, buildings and highways that can University. David can be contacted at:
benefit from this tremendous advance in technology. david.ewing@synapse-wireless.com.
The hurdle is complexity. The cost, time and skill set for WSN For more information visit www.synapse-wireless.com
application development put the benefits of this exciting new
technology out of reach for most companies, much less the average
person. Today’s systems require embedded programming, the use of
compilers, special debugging hardware and software tools, in other
words, WSNs are “used by the few technical wizards who
understand their arcane operation.”
TriBee USB
The TriBee USB dongle is designed and developed specially for
ZigBee and IEEE 802.15.4.
The dongle presents a quick, easy and inexpensive solution for
customers wanting to have ZigBee connectivity in their PCs, PDA
and smart phones. The TriBee USB dongle is ideal to commission,
Tritech Technology is one of the leading companies within the maintain, control and monitor your ZigBee network.
wireless field in Europe with more than 160 employees. The The flexibility of the USB dongle gives OEMs an excellent
company was founded in 1991 and has many years of experiences opportunity to quickly get their products to the market.
with home automation and large roll outs of mesh based AMR. The dongle is conveniently equipped with a debugging interface for
Tritech carries out customer assignments for the development, development and a bootloader for simple production.
administration and production of wireless solutions.
The company has collected all of its experiences with ZigBee Through our wide knowledge within this area we have had the
based development in its own product family; TriBee. opportunity to work with several customers around the world. Let us
The TriBee product family makes it easy to adopt ZigBee know if there’s anything we can help you with - we would be happy
network and functionality to any of your systems and/or products. to customize our ZigBee solutions to solve your problems.
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