“Dust has played a pioneering role in wireless sensor networking. The company’s Time Synchronized Mesh Protocol, now a foundational building block of the WirelessHART standard, has served as a catalyst for the industrial market.”
Dust Networks Joins Zigbee Alliance
April 26, 2010
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DUST NETWORKS JOINS ZIGBEE ALLIANCE
Hayward, CA, (April 26, 2010)—Dust Networks®, the leading supplier of wireless sensor networks (WSN), today announced that it has joined the ZigBee® Alliance. The ZigBee Alliance is an association of companies working together to enable reliable, cost-effective, low-power, wirelessly networked, monitoring and control products based on an open global standard. ZigBee technology will be embedded in a wide range of products and applications across consumer, commercial, industrial and government markets worldwide. The ZigBee Alliance standardized its ZigBee specification on top of the Physical (PHY) and Medium Access Control (MAC) layers of the IEEE 802.15.4 global standard; adding the application profile layers, security and network layers to create ZigBee.
In 2009, ZigBee Smart Energy™ was included by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the initial list of standards for the Smart Grid roadmap. The ZigBee Alliance recently announced its plans for ZigBee Smart Energy 2.0, which will provide an IP-based energy management solution that is MAC and PHY agnostic, and will allow for expanded use of ZigBee in new areas and configurations.
“Dust Networks new family of ultra-low power IEEE 802.15.4 SoCs will provide an excellent platform for ZigBee applications. We have a long standing commitment to delivering standards-based WSN products. The addition of ZigBee networking capabilities to our product portfolio later this year will allow our customers to access the broadest range of standards-based networking options in the industry”, said Brenda Glaze, Vice President of Sales & Marketing. “We are particularly pleased that the ZigBee Alliance will be offering an IP-oriented solution for ZigBee Smart Energy. Prospective product manufacturers will value the fact that Dust Networks’ ZigBee offering will consume less energy than any competing solution.”
About Dust Networks
Dust Networks, the leader in standards-based intelligent wireless sensor networking (WSN), provides ultra low-power, highly reliable systems to OEMs. Dust Networks wireless technology enables unprecedented access to information from the physical world, in markets that range from industrial monitoring and control to emerging markets such as the Smart Grid, Smart Cities and Smart Buildings. Dust Networks’ embedded products combine extremely low-power RF System-on-Chip (SoC) technology with revolutionary wireless networking capabilities, providing OEMs with a full range of standards-based WSN solutions that are flexible and easy to integrate. Dust Networks partners with industry and standards groups such as the HART Communication Foundation, IEEE, IETF, IPSO, ISA, SunSpec Alliance and the Zigbee Alliance to ensure the broad adoption of interoperable wireless sensor networking products.
About ZigBee Alliance
ZigBee is the global wireless language connecting dramatically different devices to work together and enhance everyday life. The ZigBee Alliance is a non-profit association of more than 350 members driving development of ZigBee wireless technology. The Alliance promotes world-wide adoption of ZigBee as the leading wirelessly networked, sensing and control standard for use in consumer electronic, energy, home, commercial and industrial areas. For more information, visit www.ZigBee.org.