ZigBee-compliant
I remember doing a research on wireless sensor motes on offer in the market some months ago. It was incredibly difficult to find out exactly what does it mean when vendors claim that their motes are ZigBee-compliant. As usual from marketing materials, they do not tell you clearly the specs. Even datasheets mention nothing about ZigBee. It is one thing to be IEEE 802.15.4 compliant, but quite another if it is a ZigBee product. Anyway I have to look into the source code of the software that comes with these motes to figure out what exactly is implemented. To my surprise not only that there is not a ZigBee stack (well ZigBee is not supposed to be open source), the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC is not implemented. All there is is just the 802.15.4 PHY. No beacon mode for the supposedly more energy-efficient mode of operation in a star-topology, as is designed for in 802.15.4 standard. Very disappointing.
Anyway it’s good to see that some vendors stop using the term “ZigBee-compliant” to confuse people, when their products are not ZigBee, yet.
I’m totaly agree to you. I’m working with zigbee but really we haven’t developed any zigbee complaint system. It’s really true that are a lot of people that is talking about zigbee and selling this idea but really they haven’t got a zigbee sensor or zigbee mote.
Could anyone help me in finding the locations where zigbee Networks Consists of at least 200 device.So that Zigbee Sniffer can be tested in the real environment.
ZigBee is better Wifi! Zigbee ie very well!