The 802.15.4 Buzz: Providers Want “ZigBee in a Box”

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The 802.15.4 Buzz: Providers Want “ZigBee in a Box”

Service: Multimedia & Interface Technologies
Report Number: IN0401212MI
Publication Date: August 2004
Number of Pages: 56
Report Price: $2,995 U.S. Dollars
Analyst: Joyce Putscher

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Abstract
Overall, the picture for this emerging 802.15.4 Wireless PAN (WPAN) technology looks quite promising. Based upon discussions with system providers, the closer silicon vendors can get to a “ZigBee in a box” solution, the greater the opportunities will be.

Using an aggressive scenario, annual shipments will surpass 150 million units in 2008. Although the ZigBee specification release is expected in 4Q04, taking lessons from the rollout of other new wireless technologies, we know that these rollouts do take longer than expected, and market acceptance does not happen as quickly as many would like.

Overall, positive progress is being made to get systems into the market. The year 2004 has been the year of development, or the year of silicon, while 2005 will be the year of pilots and test markets, and 2006 as the of the solution when ZigBee really flies.

Although other frequencies, or channels, may open up in China and Europe, these changes do not occur very rapidly. We continue to see the lion’s share of the worldwide 802.15.4 market being dominated by the 2.4GHz band; however, significant activity is occurring for 915MHz solutions, primarily in North America.

An overview of the technology and markets; forecasts for 2004-2008 by application, frequency band, geographic region, external host MCU vs. single package, and aggressive and conservative scenarios of node/chipsets (units, revenue and ASP); selected players; and a company matrix are included in this Zigbee market research report.

Table of Contents

Executive Summary
Methodology
Comparison of Short-Distance Wireless Technologies
IEEE 802.15.4 & ZigBee
- Characteristics
  - Features
  - Security
  - Operating Frequency Bands & Channels
  - Topology Choices & Advantages: Star, Mesh & Hybrid
  - Chipset Structure & Block Diagram
- 802.15.4/Zigbee Advantages
- 802.15.4 & Zigbee Organizations
- ZigBee Test Centers
- 802.15.4b Task Group
  - Half-Rate PHY Proposals
  - PSSS Proposal
Primary 802.15.4 & ZigBee Target Markets
- Residential Automation
- Commercial Building Control/Automation
- Automatic Meter Reading (AMR)
- Industrial
- Other Markets
  - Medical
  - Peripherals
  - Automotive
  - Defense & Homeland Security
802.15.4/Zigbee Forecasts
- Nodes/Chipsets, ASP & Revenue Forecast Conservative vs. Aggressive
  - Timing
  - Pricing, BOM Cost & Integration
  - Margin, Margin, Where's My Margin?
- Forecast by External Host MCU vs. SoC/SiP
- Forecast by Frequency Band
- Forecast by Geographic Region
  - North America
  - Japan
  - China
  - Europe
  - Forecast
- Forecast by Application
Competitive Outlook
- ZigBee vs. UWB & Bluetooth
- Wi-Fi as an Alternative?
Companies Involved with 802.15.4 and ZigBee
- Airbee Wireless
- Atmel
- Certicom Corp.
- Chipcon
- CompXs
- Danfoss
- Dust Networks
- Eaton
- EAZIX, Inc.
- Ember
- ENQ Semiconductor
- Figure 8 Wireless
- Freescale Semiconductor
- Helicomm
- Honeywell
- Invensys
- Leviton Manufacturing Company
- Link Plus Corp.
- Millennial Net
- Oki Semiconductor
- Philips Electronics (Lighting)
- Philips Semiconductors
- RAE Systems
- Renesas Technology
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- ZMD AG
- Other ZigBee Alliance Members & Participants
List of Tables
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 (ZigBee Or Proprietary Network Layer): Node/Chipset Units, BOM ASP & Revenue
Table 4. Aggressive Forecast - 802.15.4 (ZigBee Or Proprietary Network Layer): 802.15.4 Node/Chipset Units, BOM ASP & Revenue
Table 5. 802.15.4 Nodes/Chipsets (ZigBee OR Proprietary Network Layer) by External Host MCU vs. SiP/SoC
Table 6. 802.15.4 Nodes/Chipsets by Frequency Band
Table 7. 802.15.4 Nodes/Chipsets by Geographic Region: Based on Deployments & Sales Into These Regions
Table 8. 802.15.4/ZigBee Nodes/Chipsets by Application
Table 9. Matrix by Company - Semiconductor, Module, System Providers: Frequency Band Current/Expected Plans and Component Offerings

List of Figures

Figure 1. General Positioning of ZigBee, UWB, Bluetooth and 802.11x 4
Figure 2. Relative Cost/Power Positioning of ZigBee, UWB, Bluetooth and 802.11x
Figure 3. ZigBee Alliance, IEEE & Customer Relationship
Figure 4. AES Security Public Key Sizes - NIST Guidelines
Figure 5. 802.15.4 Operating Frequency Bands
Figure 6. IEEE 802.15.4: Star Topology
Figure 7. IEEE 802.15.4: Peer-Peer/Mesh & Cluster Tree Topologies
Figure 8. IEEE 802.15.4: Combined/Hybrid Topology
Figure 9. ZigBee Example Block Diagram
Figure 10. Conservative vs. Aggressive Forecast: 802.15.4 Nodes/Chipsets
Figure 11. Figure 8 Wireless Z-Stack Architecture

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