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Short Distance Wireless Landscape:
Will ZigBee Bring “The Jetsons'” Home to Life?
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The IEEE 802.15.4 low-rate wireless PAN standard specifies the physical (radio) and MAC link layers. The ZigBee specification will define the network, security and application interface layers, which can be used with an 802.15.4 solution to provide interoperability.
We expect commercial building control to capture the lion’s share of the budding 802.15.4/ZigBee market, while residential automation and industrial applications follow. Quite a bit hinges on the ability of the ZigBee Alliance to deliver a final specification in a timely manner, including completed, successful interoperability tests. If these milestones are not achieved in a reasonable amount of time, other competing wireless technologies could take hold in these markets, such as a yet-to-be-determined low-rate Ultra-Wideband WPAN alternate PHY or a potential Bluetooth “Lite” version. So, there is an impetus felt in the ZigBee Alliance to move forward according to schedule. The fact that the ZigBee Alliance has a management company handling the administration of the schedule may indeed help their cause.
Our aggressive forecast predicts 802.15.4/ZigBee nodes/chipset annual shipments in 2008 to break 160 million. This report gives an overview of the technology and markets, and provides forecasts for 2004-2008 by application, frequency band, geographic region, external host MCU vs. single package, and two forecasts of node/chipset shipments (units, revenue and ASP) -- one aggressive and one conservative.
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- Executive
Summary
- Methodology
- Comparison
of Short-Distance Wireless Technologies
- IEEE
802.15.4 & ZigBee
- Characteristics
- Features
- Operating
Frequency Bands & Channels
- Topology
Choices & Advantages: Star, Mesh & Hybrid
- Chipset
Structure & Block Diagram
- 802.15.4/Zigbee
Advantages
- 802.15.4
& Zigbee Organizations
- Primary
802.15.4/ZigBee Target Markets
- Residential
Automation
- Commercial
Building Control/Automation
- Automatic
Meter Reading (AMR)
- Industrial
- Other
Markets
- 802.15.4/Zigbee
Forecasts
- Nodes/Chipsets,
ASP & Revenue Forecast Conservative vs. Aggressive
- Forecast
by External Host MCU vs. Single Package
- Forecst
by Frequency Band
- Forecast
by Geographic Region
- Forecast
by Application
- Companies
Involved with 802.15.4/ZigBee
- AMI
Semiconductor
- Atmel
- Chipcon
- Dust
- Eaton
- Ember
- ENQ
Semiconductor
- Figure
8 Wireless
- Helicomm
- Honeywell
- Invensys
- Leviton
Mfg. Company
- Microchip
- Millennial
Net
- Motorola
SPS
- Nanotron
Technologies GMBH
- Philips
Semiconductor
- Renesas
Technology
- Samsung
Electronics Co. Ltd.
- ZMD
AG
- Other
ZigBee Alliance Members & Participants
- Competitive
Outlook
- Table
1. Wireless Standard Comparisons: 802.15.4, 802.15.1, 802.15.3
& 802.11b
- Table
2. IEEE 802.15.4: Range vs. Power Consumption by Topology
- Table
3. Conservative Forecast: 802.15.4 Nodes/Chipsets, BOM ASP
& Revenue
- Table
4. Aggressive Forecast: 802.15.4 Nodes/Chipsets, BOM ASP
& Revenue
- Table
5. 802.15.4 Nodes/Chipsets (ZigBee OR Proprietary Network
Layer) by External Host MCU vs. Single Package
- Table
6. 802.15.4 Nodes/Chipsets (ZigBee OR Proprietary Network
Layer) by Frequency Band
- Table
7. 802.15.4/ZigBee Nodes/Chipsets by Geographic Region -
Based on Deployments & Sales Into These Regions
- Table
8. 802.15.4/ZigBee Nodes/Chipsets by Application
- Table
9. 802.15.4/ZigBee vs. Bluetooth & UWB Forecasts (Units
in Thousands)
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1. General Positioning of ZigBee, UWB, Bluetooth and 802.11x
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2. Relative Cost/Power Positioning of ZigBee, UWB, Bluetooth
and 802.11x
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3. ZigBee Alliance, IEEE & Customer Relationship
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4. 802.15.4 Operating Frequency Bands
- Figure
5. IEEE 802.15.4: Star Topology
- Figure
6. IEEE 802.15.4: Peer-Peer/Mesh & Cluster Tree Topologies
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7. IEEE 802.15.4: Combined/Hybrid Topology
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8. ZigBee Example Block Diagram
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9. Conservative vs. Aggressive Forecast: 802.15.4 Nodes/Chipsets
(Units in Thousands)
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