Technologists have never had trouble coming up with potential applications for wireless sensors. In a home security system, for example, wireless sensors would be much easier to install than sensors ...

Renesas has assembled the hardware and software required by ZigBee and IEEE802.15.4 MAC short range wireless communication network technologies as ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 MAC solutions, and provides total ...

Wireless Sensor Networks will open the floodgates to the wireless revolution. But building a practical wireless network can be a daunting challenge unless the concepts are kept simple. Nobody can ...

TOKYO – Oki Electric Industry began running an experimental ZigBee-based sensor network in Japan’s western port city of Kobe on Monday, the company said the same day. The company installed a network ...

The ZigBee Alliance, a group of companies pushing a new wireless technology that could give network connectivity to all electrical devices, is getting ready to certify products. The Alliance announced ...

The Digi International ConnectPort X is a ready-made gateway designed to speed the implementation of 802.15.4 or ZigBee wireless networks. It lets modular wireless nodes connect to the Internet via ...

Have you ever noticed how wireless tech helps devices talk without wires, making homes, cities, and health smarter. Small ...

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. Today the group that develops Bluetooth technology said it would join with rival short-range wireless technology from Nokia known as Wibree to develop all manner of ...

Bluetooth and ZigBee have much in common. Both are types of IEEE 802.15 “wireless personal-area networks,” or WPANs. Both run in the 2.4-GHz unlicensed frequency band, and both use small form factors ...