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Home Toys
April 2005
Raoul Wijgergangs |
Making Sense of Today's Home Control Technologies The Z-Wave protocol is designed for residential control systems. Typically these systems have between five and two hundred plus nodes, distributed around the home and garden. The system is designed for easy installation because homeowners install and manage the system themselves.   |
InternetNews
December 16, 2004
Eric Griffith |
Zigbee (Almost) Arrives The low-power, low-cost wireless finally has an official specification, but don't believe the hype of all the players--no one has real Zigbee chips or products just yet. |
PC Magazine
February 5, 2009
Eric Griffith |
After 11n: The Future of Wireless Home Networking Wi-Fi's immediate and distant future hold improvements to ad hoc connections, 802.11s (and 11z!), and more. Here's what you need to know. |
Home Toys
December 2004
Raoul Wijgergangs |
Realizing the Promise of the Connected Home Z-Wave is delivering on the promise of the connected home with a chip the size of a dime. Its low-cost wireless mesh network communications technology enables consumers to monitor and manage their lights, thermostats, garage door openers, smoke detectors, security systems and other home control products. |
Home Toys
October 2005
Adams & Nguyen |
HomeToys Interview: Panasonic Adopts ZigBee via Freescale's Platform ZigBee technology is intended to take much of the pain and difficulty out of adding short-range, robust wireless to products that once relied upon expensive wiring or proprietary radios. |
PC Magazine
October 5, 2004
Bill Howard |
Home Automation that Works Zensys Z-Wave, a 908.4-MHz, UPnP-compliant mesh-networking protocol, is a home automation system that really works. |
Home Toys
June 2006
Lew Brown |
A New Standard for Home Control Products Entering a dark home is already a thing of the past for many people thanks to a technology called Z-Wave. One press of a button on an in-car remote illuminates the front walkway, turns on the kitchen and hall lights, unlocks the front door and turns on the stereo. |
InternetNews
December 23, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
ZigBee Goes to Texas Texas Instruments acquires Chipcon for $200 million. |
InternetNews
January 27, 2006
Susan Kuchinskas |
Bob Metcalfe, Chairman, Interim CEO, Ember Internet pioneer Bob Metcalfe takes networking to the sensor level. |
PC Magazine
August 17, 2004
Bill Howard |
Geek-Free Home Automation One of life's ironies is that those of us who can dim the living-room lights and switch the stereo to soft jazz at the press of a single button are probably the geeks who can't get a date and take advantage of the romantic atmosphere. |
Home Toys
December 2004 |
HomeToys Interview The ZigBee Alliance is an association of companies working together to enable wirelessly networked monitoring and control products based on an open global standard. |
InternetNews
January 23, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
ZigBee Key to Jetsons-style Living Two-way, low-data-rate chips will be central to the connected home of the future, say analysts. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2006
Jon Adams & Bob Heile |
Busy as a ZigBee Now that you've finally installed Wi-Fi, get ready for a second home network -- one that will control the house itself |
This Old House
Eric Hagerman |
Say What? Translating Smart-Home Geek Speak From Apple HomeKit to Z-Wave, common smart-home jargon is demystified. |
InternetNews
November 14, 2006
Tim Scannell |
Dust Bets These 'Motes' Will Float Dust Networks takes an all-in-one approach to wireless embedded sensors. |
PC Magazine
February 11, 2004
Bill Howard |
No Cords, No Hassles Wireless begets wireless. Once you cut the cord on a couple of devices, you want to cut them all. Here are half a dozen wireless technologies you'll want to take advantage of. |
InternetNews
April 8, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
MobilePro Files for Zigbee Patent MobilPro said it has filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office that covers 32 claims in multiple frequencies around multiple wireless standards including ZigBee, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. |
Wired
January 2004
Bob Parks |
Everything Is Under Control Several new systems use a central server and your PC to manage clashing protocols for home automation devices. These are stopgap measures. What is really needed is a single standard like 802.15.4, also known as ZigBee. |
Home Toys
August 2004
Tunheim & Braathen |
A Single-Chip 2.4 GHz RF Transceiver Compliant with IEEE 802.15.4 and Ready to be Used in ZigBee Solutions The CC2420 makes an excellent fit for IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee products tageted by home and building automation, industrial monitoring and control and wireless sensor networks applications. |
Home Toys
June 2005
Jorgensen & Johansen |
Z-Wave as Home Control RF Platform The mesh network Z-Wave system, with its self-organizing and self-healing features, combined with flexible but simple installation procedures, provides an easy-to-use network solution. |
Home Toys
October 2003
Patrick Kinney |
ZigBee Technology: Wireless Control that Simply Works An association of companies is working together to create a very low-cost, very low-power-consumption, two-way, wireless communications standard. |
PC Magazine
November 2, 2004
Troy Dreier |
Your Automated Home Control your household appliances from a PC, over the Web, or via remote. We review four starter packages. |
