Proven technology and market efficiencies are driving industry demand for ZigBee. Consider the following:

• ZigBee specifies the only global wireless networking standards focused on monitoring, control and sensor applications.
• Professionals and experts from around the world design ZigBee standards for global use.
• ZigBee standards help make products both cost and energy efficient.
• Ten ZigBee standards create new solutions that deliver greater comfort, convenience and savings for everyone.
• The ZigBee Alliance is growing and has a variety of corporate, private and governmental entities as members who are contributing to the innovation inside every ZigBee standard.
   

ANALYST FORECASTS

	“ZigBee comprised roughly 40% of the 2010 IEEE 802.15.4 chipset shipments and will grow to comprise nearly 55% of 2016 IEEE 802.15.4 chipset shipments.”
	“In the utilities surveyed, 47% of survey respondents choose ZigBee as their preferred choice for communications standards in the home.”
	“Over 1.1 billion IEEE 802.15.4 ICs are forecast to be shipped in the period 2009-2015. Of these, over 85% will use ZigBee or ZigBee-RF4CE certified software stacks.”
	“ZigBee has been considered the front-running short range connectivity option for smart grid since its inception, and has maintained its position so far. While the number of ZigBee clients in homes to date is relatively small, In-Stat believes that ZigBee will maintain its dominance” says Allen Nogee, Research Director.
	“In 2014, global revenues for home energy management equipment and services will reach $3.3 billion from an aggressive viewpoint. ZigBee will make up about half of the global home energy management market at this time (this includes wired and wireless systems).”

ZigBee has earned a strong leadership role in the worldwide movement toward smart electrical grids. Numerous utilities and energy service providers are deploying ZigBee solutions because ZigBee meets their needs and gives them an inherently green, reliable, secure and easy-to-use standard, ZigBee Smart Energy. Only ZigBee offers ZigBee Smart Energy, the world's preferred wireless smart metering standard for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) home area networks (HAN).

Entire cities, like Goteborg Sweden, rely on ZigBee standards, as do hotels like the Aria and Mandarin Oriental at CityCenter in Las Vegas, and hospitals like Jackson Memorial Hospital at the University of Florida, to name just a few.

Our members sell a wide range of easy-to-use ZigBee Certified products using the ZigBee Home Automation and ZigBee Smart Energy standards that help consumers create smart homes. The homes are smart because home appliances, lighting, heating and cooling, energy use and security can now be controlled and monitored systemically rather than each device individually. This control and newly gained information helps consumers be green by giving them a quick and easy way to reduce energy consumption and costs, while helping our environment.