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 ...

Although most IT professionals, as well as a majority of consumers, are familiar with the Bluetooth wireless data-communications standard, very few are aware of the new ZigBee wireless data standard.

In the Internet of Things, wireless communications choices are legion — especially in the building automation market. Developers are challenged to decide which of several competing networking ...

Yet another wireless connectivity standard will claim the spotlight this week, as the ZigBee Alliance conducts its member meeting at an open house in Berlin, and IC suppliers like Motorola Inc.'s ...

In what looks to be a coup for the ZigBee Alliance, the Continua Health Alliance has picked Bluetooth Low Energy and ZigBee for inclusion in its next set of guidelines for interoperability between ...

The Continua Health Alliance, a coalition of healthcare and technology firms, is recommending Bluetooth short-range wireless technology for a new generation of activity monitors, heart-rate sensors ...

ST is aiming at secured Bluetooth, Zigbee and other 2.4GHz comms with a wireless MCU family. Called STM32WBA6x, the controllers have a 100MHz Arm Cortex-M33 core with floating-point and DSP extensions ...

Add Zigbee devices to your smart home without a proprietary hub.

As consumers watch another wave of home IoT devices emerge from CES this week, they’ll still be waiting for one technology that can make all those products work together. The ZigBee Alliance, a group ...

Smart home communication protocols form the backbone of connected living spaces, determining how devices interact and perform ...