Items tagged with Zigbee
Over the past five years, the digital assistant, smart speaker and smart home market has exploded in popularity. However, as the market has expanded and more companies have entered the fray with competing ecosystems, interoperability has mostly been thrown out the window. Some of the more popular smart platforms include Amazon (Alexa Smart Home), Google (Weave), Apple (HomeKit), Samsung (SmartThings), and Zigbee. Interoperability between the platforms is sometimes complex and oftentimes impossible. To combat this, Amazon, Apple, Google, and the ZigBee Alliance have formed a new working group tasked with developing a royalty-free, universal connected home standard unimaginatively called...
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Wireless standards are confusing. There are so many to consider, and a lot of them do very similar things. It's tough to wade through what's what, and it's tough to know what is compatible with what. Home automation is a particularly sticky subject, with a few players in the market and hardly any that are compatible. ZigBee is a standard that has actually been around for years, and the ZigBee Alliance has been growing. Today, that group has announced something new: he completion of ZigBee Input Device, the new global standard for human interface devices used in consumer electronics (CE) and computer accessories. That's a long way to say "a new low-power protocol." ZigBee Input Device gives...
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ZigBee may still be foreign to many consumers, but it's a growing wireless transmission technology that has especially taken hold in the home automation realm. To that end, ARM has decided to hitch its wagon to one Ember in order to delve gently into what could be a promising partnership.Announced today, Ember will rely on ARM's own Cortex M3 processor for its next generation ZigBee semiconductors, and considering the goals of each company, the match truly is one that's made in heaven. ZigBee needs a low-power chip, and ARM has low-power chips to provide. No, the Cortex M3 is no powerhouse, but ZigBee isn't a technology that requires gobs of computational abilities. As it stands, Embed...
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