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When developing ZigBee and 802.15.4 devices, you need to ensure not only that they work correctly, but also that they comply with industry standards.
Ideally, you need a development and testing solution that is intuitive and helps you to be productive quickly even if you are new to ZigBee/802.15.4. This solution should also provide up-to-date implementations of the latest industry standards, and provide powerful testing, analysis and troubleshooting tools.
The solution should provide you with an overall view of what is going on in the network, and also allow you to drill down to get additional details about individual routes, devices, and packets. You also want the ability to filter and customize the way in which network details are displayed to help you focus on the things that are important. And you need to be able to analyze and troubleshoot both live and captured traffic.
The solution should also be flexible—allowing you to pay for the functionality you require today and upgrade in future as your needs increase—and it should work with an extensive selection of semiconductor boards and developer kits to allow you to choose the one that best meets your development needs.
Testing and field trials
In addition to powerful analysis and troubleshooting tools to help ensure your product works the way it should, you also want features that help you quickly address any problems that arise and re-test any changes and fixes you implement.
Features that can prove valuable here include the following:
- Active polling and analysis of devices, which allows you to request information about devices and networks, and also to actively join networks and configure devices.
- Locationing, which allows you to quickly find a device whose where-abouts is unknown or subject to change.**
- Over-the-air firmware upgrades, which allows you to update the firmware on multiple devices simultaneously over your ZigBee network so that you can quickly test and verify new and fixed code.**
** Supported on selected stacks.
ZigBee certification
One of the key benefits of ZigBee and IEEE 802.15.4 is that they are standards-based to provide interoperability. For any product to qualify as "ZigBee Certified" or "ZigBee Compliant", it must first pass the ZigBee Alliance's certification process.
Not only is Daintree's Sensor Network Analyzer the industry's most powerful testing and analysis tool, it is also used by the ZigBee Alliance as the primary platform-independent means of visualizing, recording and verifying conformance to ZigBee specifications and test plans.
Save time and money by developing and testing using the same tools as the ZigBee Alliance, and have confidence that your device will pass certification at the first attempt.
The industry's leading solution
When it comes to a development and testing solution, Daintree has all bases covered. The Sensor Network Analyzer (SNA) software works with a large number of third-party capture devices. It can also be combined with Daintree's 2400E Sensor Network Adapter to extend the capabilities of the SNA and allow active analysis of networks in addition to traditional packet sniffing.
With the SNA software available in three different editions (Basic, Standard and Professional), there's a solution that's right for every development need and budget.
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Development solution
Daintree Sensor Network Analyzer Professional, Standard or Basic edition
- Visualize: Understand device and network behavior quickly with visual troubleshooting. Observe your network's operation by visually analyzing how devices join the network, routing behavior, and application binding
- Analyze: Use unparalleled navigation tools to analyze your implementation and detect problems. Troubleshoot protocol issues with complete detail, or focus by narrowing your search
- Measure: Use the industry’s only performance analysis solution to ensure that your network meets necessary performance requirements.
- Compliant: This industry-standard solution is used by key semiconductor and software companies, and at all product certification and interoperability test events hosted by the ZigBee Alliance.
Daintree 2400E Sensor Network Adapter or other capture device
- Start new networks or join existing ones
- Connect and disconnect devices
- Specify configuration and security settings
- Monitor and capture network formation and performance for troubleshooting.
- "Actively" poll and commission devices.
Application notes
- Locationing
- Over the air upgrades
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Find out more
- Sensor Network Analyzer
- Sensor Network Adapter
- Supported capture devices
- View online demos
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