ZigBee For Real?
While it hasn’t seen the sort of fighting found in standards groups for just about every other wireless standard, there was some concern about in-fighting concerning pre-standard ZigBee products. It looks like it shouldn’t be that much of an issue, as the ZigBee Alliance has now ratified the ZigBee spec, which should lead to ZigBee compliant products hitting the market fairly soon. In the last few months, there have been more stories about ZigBee-ready products approaching the market, so hopefully a set spec will make sure that such products really are ZigBee compliant, pushing forward the low-cost, low-power, low-bandwidth devices which should be ideal for machine-to-machine communication — something that should continue the trend of blurring the lines between the analog and digital worlds.
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