Compare ZigBee Specification Versions

12-Feb-2008 — The ZigBee Alliance creates technology standards designed to create a thriving market for a variety of uses.

The ZigBee 1.0 specification was ratified in December 2004, and is referred to as ZigBee 2004. In December 2006, the ZigBee 2006 specification was released, which was followed in October 2007 by the ZigBee 2007/PRO specification. Each new release adds to and improves functionality provided in previous versions of the specification.

Daintree's specification matrix provides a high-level comparison that shows the similarities and differences between the 2004, 2006, and 2007/PRO ZigBee specifications.

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New Whitepaper: Going Green with AMI and ZigBee Smart Energy

12-Feb-2008 — This whitepaper provides an overview of AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure), including the cost savings and environmental benefits it can provide. It then looks at how ZigBee fits into this picture, and the ways in which ZigBee (together with its Smart Energy application profile) is ideally suited for the development, delivery and on-going support of AMI solutions. 

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New ZigBee Smart Energy Profile delivers efficiency and savings

Utilities gain wireless standard for AMI programs requiring home area networks and interoperable products

Tampa, Florida — January 22, 2008 — The ZigBee® Alliance Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, today announced it has completed development of its ZigBee Smart Energy public application profile. ZigBee Smart Energy offers utility companies a global open standard for implementing secure, easy-to-use wireless home area networks for managing energy. The profile also offers product manufacturers access to a burgeoning green marketplace by establishing a standards-based technology for new products designed to enhance energy management and efficiency by consumers everywhere.

Daintree shares their fave ZigBee links

3-Jan-2008 — To celebrate the new year, Daintree Networks is sharing with you some of our favorite ZigBee training and resource links, including an interactive learning course, interactive demo, and whitepapers.

These useful and valuable gems live on the web sites of our partners and the ZigBee Alliance. We hope you find these links useful, and that at least some of them are new to you.

You can find them on the Daintree Resources page. Just click the link that says "Useful links" or scroll to the bottom of the page.

We'd also love to hear from you if you have suggestions of any other links we should add.

One RF Technology and Daintree Networks partner to accelerate ZigBee development and commissioning

SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS — Dec 10, 2007 — One RF Technology, front-runners of European ZigBee technology, and Daintree Networks, Inc., the world-wide leader in ZigBee Sensor Network Analyzer (SNA) software, today announced a partnership to offer ZigBee developers a powerful new solution.

ZigBee Home Automation: the new global standard for home automation

Alliance's first interoperable public application profile delivers interoperability on a global scale

San Ramon, California — November 5, 2007 — The ZigBee® Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions for use in consumer, commercial building and utility applications, today announced the completion and immediate free public availability of the ZigBee Home Automation (HA) public application profile that offers manufacturers a standards-based approach to introducing new wireless home automation products globally, eliminating the need for proprietary technology. HA allows reliable and interoperable home automation applications to be developed by product manufacturers for consumers everywhere offering unprecedented reliability, control, convenience, security and choice. The Alliance is also making publicly available its ZigBee Cluster Library (ZCL) that provides engineers with the building blocks for applications with common needs, reducing development effort and permitting leaner implementations tailored to their applications.

Daintree contributes cover story for Fall/Winter issue of Industrial Embedded Systems magazine

19-Oct-2007 — The current issue of the Industrial Embedded Systems magazine has a focus on commissioning of wireless sensor networks, with its cover story written by Daintree's own Jason Choong and Zachary Smith.

Commissioning a wireless sensor and control system

"ZigBee sensors are quite easy to install individually, but correctly designing and installing a large network is another matter. Jason and Zachary outline three of the most significant challenges in a big sensor network and describe a variety of solutions that can help overcome them."

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ZigBee Alliance unveils comprehensive new features

More interoperable choices creates ZigBee networks with numerous strengths

San Ramon, California — October 2, 2007 — The ZigBee® Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions for use in utility, commercial building and consumer applications, today announced it has approved comprehensive new features for the ZigBee specification giving more choices to manufacturers as they design ZigBee products. These new features significantly expand the capabilities of ZigBee, further strengthening its leadership position as the global standard for wirelessly connecting dramatically devices into a single, easy to install and use network.

Daintree Networks named as a "Top 50 Cool Company"

MELBOURNE — September 21, 2007 — Daintree Networks has been named a "Top 50 Cool Company" at the Australian Anthill Magazine 2007 Cool Company Awards. These annual awards were created to publicly acknowledge and celebrate organizations that are doing things differently—companies that defy convention to bring about positive change.

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Daintree adds advanced commissioning functionality to their Sensor Network Analyzer

SAN JOSE — August 3, 2007 —Daintree Networks, Inc. today announced the availability of the next release of their Sensor Network Analyzer (SNA). This release builds on the industry-leading testing, analysis and commissioning functionality of this popular product with new features including service discovery, binding, group commissioning, over-the-air firmware upgrades, locationing, an API, and support for the latest draft of the ZigBee 2007 specification.