Zigbee
Zigbee is a WPAN protocol based on the IEEE 802.15.4 foundation targeted for commercial and residential IoT networking that is constrained by cost, power, and space. This section details the Zigbee protocol from a hardware and software point of view. Zigbee got its name from the concept of a bee flying. As a bee flies back and forth between flowers gathering pollen, it resembles a packet flowing through a mesh network – device to device.
Zigbee history
The concept of low-power wireless mesh networking became standard in the 1990s, and the Zigbee Alliance was formed to address this charter in 2002. The Zigbee protocol was conceived after the ratification of IEEE 802.15.4 in 2004. That became the IEEE 802.15.4.-2003 standard on December 14, 2004. Specification 1.0, also known as the Zigbee 2004 Specification, was brought public on June 13, 2005. The history can be profiled as follows:
- 2005: Zigbee 2004 released
- 2006: Zigbee 2006 released...