The Zigbee Alliance has introduced a scheme that will enable Zigbee certified products from its members to retain their certification mark when rebranded and sold by third parties. Zigbee protocols are used to create short-range personal area networks with small, low-power digital radios, such as for home automation, medical device data collection, and other low-power […]
Telstra picks Icontrol for smart home offering
John Chambers, executive director home and premium services at Telstra, said the platform would connect a range of devices through an app. It will have its first public display at the Technology and Gadget Expo on 25-26 June at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. In a press release Telstra said: “The Telstra Smart Home […]
Capillary networks for IoT, where ZigBee, bluetooth, etc meet cellular
Today’s mobile networks support a wide range of machine to machine (M2M) applications but are ill-suited to many emerging IoT applications that require low bandwidth communication with static devices that are expected to operate for a decade or more on a AA battery. The cellular industry is evolving LTE to better meet the requirements of […]
