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Agreement represents an important step forward for wider ZigBee adoption in Japan SAN RAMON, Calif., May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The ZigBee® Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, and Telecommunications Technology Committee (TTC), a non-profit and private standards development organization on information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Japan, today announced the signing...
Document available for download; free webinar scheduled SAN RAMON, Calif., April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The ZigBee® Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies, creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, today announced it has completed development and ratified the Smart Energy Profile 2 (SEP 2) standard. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20091005/SF86596LOGO) SEP 2 provides IP-based information and control for energy...
SAN RAMON, Calif., Dec. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The ZigBee® Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, today announced the most eco-friendly way to power ZigBee products via its new Green Power feature. Products, including switches and dimmers, can now be easily powered with available energy harvesting sources rather than using a battery or AC mains power, creating a no-maintenance,...
SAN RAMON, Calif., Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The ZigBee® Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, today announced the public download availability of its ZigBee Input Device(TM) standard and the selection of golden units supporting this global standard for human interface devices used in consumer electronics (CE) and computer accessories. A free public webinar revealing the...
SAN RAMON, Calif., Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The ZigBee® Alliance celebrates its first decade of successes this month, most notably in enabling the growing machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) trends and providing utilities and energy service providers with new consumer energy management and efficiency capabilities. Hundreds of manufacturers have shipped hundreds of millions of ZigBee products for a variety of energy management, commercial and consumer...
SAN RAMON, Calif., Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The ZigBee® Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies, creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, today announced a new initiative examining approaches for using the 920 MHz frequency band in Japan for home energy management . This initiative will evaluate use of the forthcoming ZigBee Internet Protocol (IP) specification and the IEEE 802.15.4g standard to help Japan create smart...
SAN RAMON, Calif., May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The ZigBee® Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, today announced that there are now more than 500 ZigBee Certified products available to the market, a 60 percent surge since August 2011, demonstrating a robust ecosystem responding to rapidly rising market demand. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20091005/SF86596LOGO) Sparked...
BOSTON, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ember, a leading provider of low-power wireless mesh networking technology, announced its ZigBee platform - chips, software and tools - has achieved Golden Unit certification from the ZigBee Alliance for the newly ratified ZigBee Light Link(TM) standard. ZigBee Light Link is a wireless interoperability standard for consumer LED lighting and control products. It allows consumers to wirelessly gain control over all their LED fixtures, light bulbs,...
BEIJING and SAN RAMON, Calif., April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The ZigBee® Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, today announced it launched the ZigBee Special Interest Group - Greater China (SIG-GC) to better address the needs of its Greater China members and the Greater China market. The SIG-GC will hold its next meeting in Taipei, Taiwan in conjunction with the COMPUTEX show...
CALABASAS, Calif., March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- National Technical Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: NTSC) (NTS), a leading provider of engineering services, announced today that it has begun certification testing services supporting the ZigBee Building Automation(TM) standard for commercial buildings, the latest standard in ZigBee's standards catalog. NTS recently completed the first successful test of a lighting device supporting the standard which resulted in the ZigBee Alliance...
