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Some of us may remember when the low power connectivity protocol known as Zigbee was first introduced to the emerging IoT space back in 2002. Back then, the IEEE was developing wireless standards at a rapid pace. But Zigbee was unique because the power consumption is so low that it allowed a battery to last for a long time.  Since then, Zigbee has become an organization of hundreds of companies creating and maintaining open global standards for the IoT. Earlier this month, the Zigbee Alliance made two significant announcements. The first one concerned the renaming of the organization to the ...

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ZIGBEE ON MARS! Share this story Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech Today I learned that the Ingenuity drone copter twirling about on Mars communicates with the Perseverance rover using 900MHz Zigbee radios. Not Wi-Fi, GSM, or something exotic like fission-powered lasers or space algae, but the same consumer tech you use to turn on a Philips Hue lightbulb. I came across the news via an incredulous tweet from Ben Bromley who discovered it on the Linux Unplugged podcast with guest Tobin Richardson, CEO of the Zigbee Alliance, recently rebranded the Connectivity Standards Alliance. According to Richardson,...

Google brings smart home standard 'Matter' to Android, Nest Adv. San Francisco, May 20 (IANS) Google has announced to bring interconnected cross-platform smart home standard called ‘Matter’ to Android and capable Nest products, powering them with interoperable control and enabling simpler setups. Earlier called Project Connected Home over IP (CHIP), ‘Matter’ is a unified smart home standard partnership between Google, Amazon, Apple, Samsung, the Zigbee Alliance and others. At its I/O developer conference, Google said on Wednesday that Android will be one of the leading operating syste...

Google is looking to really simplify the smart home experience, not solely for buyers of its own branded products, but virtually all smart home device users. Introduced this week is Matter, a new...