August 11, 2011 – 7:56 am
By Mike Dow – Smart Energy 2.0 Profile, which will be certified by a new open consortium with initial membership of the HomePlug Alliance, ZigBee Alliance, WiFi Alliance, and HomeGrid Forum, is really big news. This announcement marks the beginning of a growing trend of “uber” profiles – “a profile to rule them all” – at [...]
By Mike Dow
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Posted in Everything Wireless, Freescale, Smart Energy, The Embedded Beat
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Also tagged bluetooth, Freescale, Multi-PHY/MAC, PHY/MAC, SEP 2.0, Smart Energy, Smart Energy 2.0 Profile, WiFi, ZigBee
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January 11, 2011 – 6:08 pm
By Jon Adams Seems like everyone wants to get into enabling the wireless part of the world of wireless sensors. Now there are the DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications) fans! What’s DECT? It’s a wireless communications technology that’s been around for over 20 years, and today is pretty much used exclusively for cordless home telephones. [...]
By Jon Adams
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Posted in 802.11, 802.15.4, Everything Wireless, Freescale, The Embedded Beat, Wi-Fi
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Also tagged 802.11, 802.15.4, BLE, bluetooth, Bluetooth low energy, BTLE, consumer electronics, DECT, green technology, Health Care, healthcare, ZigBee
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By Jon Adams You’ve grown accustomed to tilting the iPhone or iPad and having the screen change from landscape to portrait, or steering the spaceship to port or starboard. Now you want to put that into your next product – you may want to try a wireless sensor demo kit that detects fall, tilt, motion, [...]
By Jon Adams
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Posted in Everything Wireless, Medical by Design
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Also tagged 802.15.4, alzheimer's, elder care, green technology, group care, Health Care, healthcare, hospital, locationing, ZigBee
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By Jon Adams Troy Wolverton at the San Jose Mercury News recently penned a great article on the value of ZigBee for low-rate, battery-friendly communications between devices in most household environments. He even opines that the potential volume for ZigBee-enabled devices could exceed that of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth no small challenge, but there’s some stuff [...]
November 12, 2009 – 10:08 am
By Jon Adams ZigBee wireless technology has been around since the first public release in December 2004. Based upon the extremely flexible and robust IEEE 802.15.4 short-range wireless protocol, the ZigBee Alliance currently numbers over 300 member companies. RF4CE got its start back in 2006 when Sony came to Freescale with a need to replace [...]
October 26, 2009 – 10:07 am
Jon Adams Everyone talks about the machine-to-machine (M2M) universe where the information from a plethora of cost-effective sensors allows people and systems to make even better decisions. One of the many challenges has always been the connectivity required for these sensors. Let’s put this in perspective by looking at it from the point of view [...]
October 20, 2009 – 1:54 pm
Jon Adams The Consumer Electronics (CE) companies are faced daily with a very challenging prospect – create technologically rich, feature-rich devices and put them in the hands of John Q and Suzie G Public in such a way that the products don’t get returned immediately because of frustration. Yes, there’s an instruction manual, but all [...]
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