Wireless embedded networks hold great promise for deployment in residential and commercial building-automation, industrial plant monitoring, and other wireless sensing and control applications. An ...

GreenPeak Technologies announces the GP690, adding ZigBee PRO to its product portfolio and offering full support for its Open Smart Home Framework, integrating all three ZigBee networking variants ...

Wireless developer Cambridge Consultants is demonstrating how ZigBee's unique networking attributes can be exploited to implement sophisticated 'home monitoring networks' for the elderly and ...

Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet, predicted last week that the ZigBee wireless standard would be hugely successful -- which makes sense, as his company Polaris Ventures, has a stake in its ...

A San Diego start-up apparently is the first company with commercially available tools for connecting everything from smoke detectors to heart monitors over low-power wireless nets based on the IEEE ...

Hawking's HomeRemote solution, expected to ship later this spring, uses ZigBee technology, which provides low- bandwidth wireless connections at up to 75 meters, allowing homeowners to remotely ...

ZigBee, an emerging wireless networking technology, will see strong growth over the next few years, according to a new study from ABI Research. About one million devices with ZigBee will be shipped ...

Imagine a golf course that can sense rainfall, and adjust the automatic sprinkler system to delay a scheduled watering session or focus on parts of the course that didn’t get as much rain as others.

Ready for yet another wireless networking standard? Motorola is working on one code-named ZigBee, which works on the 802.15.4 specification, and supposedly will be used to wirelessly control all sorts ...

LG Electronics Inc. will use ZigBee wireless technology from Ember Corp. in Boston in LG’s HomNet system for controlling home energy efficiency, security, appliances and other devices, the two ...