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 ...

One of the most interesting improvements is the massive boost to range and signal strength. Zigbee 4.0 extends its capabilities beyond the crowded 2.4GHz band. It now introduces support for the ...

ZigBee, the emerging wireless technology that could give billions of electronic devices a connection to the Internet, has moved another small step towards wide-scale commercial deployment. A ...

On this week's episode of the HomeKit Insider podcast, we cover the release of Zigbee 4.0 and the new long-range Suzi wireless standard with special guest Genie Peshkova from the Connectivity ...

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SAN JOSE — Philips Semiconductors is moving full speed ahead to develop chips based on the new “ZigBee” short-range wireless protocol, with plans to begin sampling products early next year, according ...

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 ...

A group of leading technology companies will meet this week to discuss and further develop an emerging wireless networking technology with an unconventional name, ZigBee. The ZigBee Alliance, ...

QuietCare hasannounced the adoption of ZigBee, an advanced wireless networking technology.The revelation was made at last week’s AAHSA show in Washington. ZigBee willhelp staff interaction with ...

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 ...

The ZigBee Alliance announced that the latest update to its Home Automation standard is now ready for product development. The Home Automation standard is one of several ZigBee application standards ...