SPECIFICATIONS

Today, the ZigBee Alliance offers two specifications that serve as the base networking system to facilitate its interoperable market standards. Both specifications are supported by a robust and competitive supply chain, making it easy for you to add ZigBee to your products.

ZigBee Specification 

The core ZigBee specification defines ZigBee's smart, cost-effective and energy-efficient mesh network. It's an innovative, self-configuring, self-healing system of redundant, low-cost, very low-power nodes that enable ZigBee's unique flexibility, mobility and ease of use.

ZigBee is available as two feature sets, ZigBee PRO and ZigBee. Both feature sets define how the ZigBee mesh networks operate. ZigBee PRO, the most widely used specification, is optimized for low power consumption and to support large networks with thousands of devices. 

ZigBee RF4CE Specification 

The specialty-use driven ZigBee RF4CE was designed for simple, two-way device-to-device control applications that do not require the full-featured mesh networking capabilities offered by ZigBee 2007. ZigBee RF4CE offers lower memory size requirements thereby enabling lower cost implementations. The simple device-to-device topology provides easy development and testing, resulting in faster time to market.

ZigBee RF4CE provides a multi-vendor interoperable solution for consumer electronics featuring a simple, robust and low-cost communication network for two-way wireless connectivity.