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Davis, Calif. — March 8, 2016 — The ZigBee Alliance, a non-profit association of companies creating, maintaining, and delivering open, global standards for the low-power wireless Internet of Things (IoT), announced it will be joined by 60 member companies at the Light + Building 2016 conference.
The conference, March 13-18 in Frankfurt, Germany, is a trade fair for lighting and building-services technology and presents solutions that cut the energy consumption of a building at the same time as increasing the level of comfort. At the fair, everything is represented, from LED technology, via photovoltaic and electro-mobility, to intelligent electricity usages with smart metering and smart grids.
ZigBee Alliance members will showcase a broad range of interoperable solutions for home and building automation and lighting. The alliance will also highlight its ZigBee 3.0 solution that unifies the IoT through standardization and interoperability at all layers of the network, and will soon bring the most widely deployed energy-harvesting technology to the 2.4GHz global consumer frequency band through a collaboration with the EnOcean Alliance.
“The ZigBee Alliance is helping to move energy harvesting from specialized industrial and building automation applications to a significantly broader range of new consumer and commercial markets that make use of the global 2.4 GHz frequency band,” said Mark Walters, vice president of strategic development, ZigBee
“In addition to updating Light + Building attendees on our collaboration with the EnOcean Alliance to significantly expand global energy harvesting opportunities, we will also share the latest news about the growing momentum behind our ZigBee 3.0 solution.”
Because existing ZigBee Home Automation and ZigBee Light Link standards for smart homes and buildings are forward compatible with ZigBee 3.0, there are already several hundred certified devices that are immediately part of the ZigBee 3.0 ecosystem. Many of these will be on display at the conference.
