ZigBee Alliance Triples in Size

maxstreampr writes "The ZigBee Alliance just put out a press release talking about how they tripled in size in the past year. I know, I can see the posts already. "What up to 3 members now." There are actually 124 members and they have some huge players in Phillips, Freescale, Samsung, and MaxStream. Not too shabby." See this story from December for more on ZigBee; in short, it's a low-data-rate wireless standard "to enable wirelessly networked monitoring and control products."

Re:Erm... Important how?

[chris09876]

They've actually got some good whitepapers in MS Word format on their website. Look at the information section: http://www.zigbee.org/en/resources/

Re:Erm... Important how?

[HotNeedleOfInquiry]

ZigBee is very cool technology, but the question any slashdotter has to ask is "where do they stand on open source?"

Unfortunately, the answer is "someplace between Sun and SCO".

They want several thousand dollars to license their protocol stack and they seem to be going down the same road to Hell as Lonworks.

Call us back when...

[YrWrstNtmr]

...your product page [zigbee.org] has actual products, and doesn't say "Coming Soon".

They're different

[daveo0331]

I could try to explain the difference, but someone else already did in the article from last month, so I'll just link to that instead:

http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=132 777&cid=11086941 [slashdot.org]

Re:Erm... Important how?

[lakiolen]

If you want open source low-data-rate wireless mesh networking check out the http://www.tinyos.net/ and http://webs.cs.berkeley.edu/ websites. I can't say much that wouldn't be biased because I'm, how you say, an involved party, but it is completely open source (GPL) and anybody can contribute they're own code and if it is good it might even be used :).