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Volume 2 | Issue 1 | January 2008 |
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WHERE YOU'LL FIND US |
CES
Pavilion # 20666
January 7-10, 2008
Las Vegas, Nevada
AHR
January 22-24, 2008
New York, New York
DistribuTECH
Booth # 838
January 22-24, 2008
Tampa, Florida
TechAdvantage
Conference
February 20-25, 2008
San Jose, California
World Meter Design Conference
February 20-22, 2008
San Jose, California
ZigBee Alliance
Open House
February 28, 2008
Tokyo, Japan
Details
and Registration
Light + Building
Booth # 9.1 B 12
April 6-11, 2008
Frankfurt, Germany
Metering America
ZigBee Booth
April 19-23, 2008
San Diego, California
Metering China
April 22-24, 2008
Zhuhai, China
Join
as a ZigBee Member
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 January 7-10, 2008
Las Vegas Convention Center
Las Vegas, NV
Visit the ZigBee Alliance Tech Zone at CES 2008! The Tech Zone will be in the South Hall 1 of the Las Vegas Convention Center booth #20666.
Member companies participating at CES 2008 include:
- Atmel
- Cambridge
- CityGrow Technology
- Ember
- Integration
- Jennic
- RadioPulse
- Texas Instruments
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ZigBee Today
 ZigBee
is kicking off 2008 with a return to the world’s largest
trade show: the Consumer Electronics Show January 7-10 in Las
Vegas. Our pavilion will be packed with the products and services
from eight members including Atmel, Cambridge Consultants, CityGrow
Technology, Ember, Integration Associates, Jennic, RadioPulse
and Texas Instruments. Visitors to CES will be able to see a
multi-vendor, interoperable demonstration of ZigBee's energy
management and efficiency capabilities. This display is similar
to one that ZigBee member CenterPoint Energy has installed at
their Technology Lab in Houston.
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WELCOME NEW MEMBERS
The Alliance welcomes the following new members since our
last newsletter.
Participants
Baltimore Gas and Electric
CASON Engineering Plc
Consumers Energy Company
Dresser, Inc.
DTE Energy
Energate, Inc.
Kaba
LS Industrial Systems
Oncor Electric Delivery
Reliant Energy Retail Services, Inc.
TELIT Communications SPA
TXU Energy
Victorian Dept. of Primary Industries (Energy & Earth
Resources Policy)
Adopters
CentraLite Systems, Inc.
dresden elektronick ingenieurtechnik GmbH
Energy, Inc.
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences & Arts
Mobilarm Pty, Ltd.
Onset Computer Corporation
Open Technologies 98
SITEK SPA
Wireless Glue Networks, Inc.
ZigBee Webinar Update
If you or someone you know missed the November 14 ZigBee webinar
entitled “ZigBee: A Standard Approach to Home Automation”
there is still another chance to see it. This webinar explores
the world of Home Automation, providing wireless control of
a variety of every day devices found around homes including
lighting, HVAC, powered outlets, security, as well as audio/video
equipment. Through ZigBee Home Automation consumers will enjoy
many benefits from energy efficiency and convenience to increased
safety, control and productivity.
To view ZigBee: A Standard Approach to Home Automation, simply click on the link below.
View Webinar
ZigBee Newsroom
WORLD’S MOST DIVERSE INTEROPERABLE HOME ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM POWERED BY ZIGBEE ON DISPLAY AT CENTERPOINT ENERGY TECHNOLOGY CENTER
Multiple Industry Leaders Showcase Interoperability and Benefits of Wireless
Home Area Network
Houston - Nov. 14, 2007 - The world's most diverse ZigBee powered Home Area Network (HAN) is
now on display at CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric's Technology Center. The display features
ZigBee enabled electric and gas meters from Itron, ZigBee enabled programmable controllable
thermostats (PCT) from Computime, Control4, Hunter Fan Company, Golden Power
Manufacturing/Radio Thermostat Company of America and Trane, along with an energy management
web portal from Tendril Networks. The hands-on ZigBee powered HAN at CenterPoint Energy’s
Technology Center offers a view into the utility’s innovative use of technology, which is designed to
improve energy efficiency and electric service.
CenterPoint Energy, which began a limited deployment of 10,000 electric and 100 gas advanced meters
earlier this year, is one of several innovative utilities that are members of the ZigBee Alliance. It is
joined by other utilities helping to ensure that ZigBee HANs support future energy management
solutions. That group includes: DTE Energy, Oncor Electric Delivery, Sempra Utilities, Southern
California Edison, and TXU Energy.
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Why Should My Company Join the ZigBee Alliance?
- My company is looking for the right technology to meet our low-power, low data-rate, wireless networking needs.
- My company makes products that could benefit from wireless communications.
- My company wants to stay abreast of important global wireless standards that are changing the way we live and work.
- We can't afford to fall behind our competition.
- Being in control of our future is important to us.
- My company wants to learn about the latest technology standards before our competitors.
- My company wants to help influence the future of wireless data networking.
- My company wants to network with the best and brightest minds in the industry.
How to Join
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Today
ZigBeeis kicking off 2008 with a return to the world’s
largest trade show: the Consumer Electronics Show January 7-10 in
Las Vegas. Our pavilion will be packed with the products and services
from eight members including Atmel, Cambridge Consultants, CityGrow
Technology, Ember, Integration Associates, Jennic, RadioPulse and
Texas Instruments. Visitors to CES will be able to see a multi-vendor,
interoperable demonstration of ZigBee's energy management and efficiency
capabilities. This display is similar to one that ZigBee member
CenterPoint Energy has installed at their Technology Lab in Houston.
The choice of ZigBee for uses in energy management and efficiency
continues to gain strength as additional governments, regulators,
utility companies and their innovative suppliers work together to
integrate ZigBee Home Area Networks into new programs promoting
efficiency. In the last few months, several industry analysts have
started to predict ZigBee as the preferred technology solution in
this space. In the coming years, people will equate ZigBee with
saving energy. As energy resources continue to become more precious
and more expensive, automation systems for both residential and
commercial uses will become widespread as consumers and businesses
alike look for ways to maintain comfort, security and convenience
while using energy as efficiently as possible. The emergence of
ZigBee Smart Energy systems will in turn expand ZigBee's usage in
a variety of other areas such as Telecom Services and Health Care.
2007 was a very successful year for the ZigBee Alliance in a number
of areas:
- Membership: We ended the year 250 members strong. Product
manufacturers now comprised more than 50 percent of our membership,
a strong indicator of future product introductions.
- ZigBee Specification: A much anticipated new release
of the ZigBee Specification saw the introduction of the ZigBee
PRO Feature Set to complement the existing ZigBee Feature Set.
These two Feature Sets give ZigBee increased flexibility to address
more implementations than ever before, offering a variety of options
that appeal to product manufacturers.
- ZigBee Home Automation: This public application profile
offers a truly global interoperable standard for home automation.
- Product Development: The ZigBee Cluster Library and the
ZigBee Home Automation Profile are publicly available to the development
and open source community to help them develop new products and
new ideas. Now that work is complete on the core Standard, the
Alliance has shifted focus to public application profiles in order
to provide a complete global standard for targeted markets and
facilitate the deployment of ZigBee technology.
On behalf of all the members of the ZigBee Alliance, we thank you
for your interest and support and wish you a prosperous and happy
new year.
Bob Heile
Chairman, ZigBee Alliance
ZigBee Alliance (www.zigbee.org)
Wireless Control That Simply Works
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ZigBee Newsroom
WORLD’S MOST DIVERSE INTEROPERABLE HOME ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM POWERED BY ZIGBEE ON DISPLAY AT CENTERPOINT ENERGY TECHNOLOGY CENTER
Multiple Industry Leaders Showcase Interoperability and Benefits of Wireless
Home Area Network
Houston - Nov. 14, 2007 - The world's most diverse ZigBee powered Home Area Network (HAN) is
now on display at CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric's Technology Center. The display features
ZigBee enabled electric and gas meters from Itron, ZigBee enabled programmable controllable
thermostats (PCT) from Computime, Control4, Hunter Fan Company, Golden Power
Manufacturing/Radio Thermostat Company of America and Trane, along with an energy management
web portal from Tendril Networks. The hands-on ZigBee powered HAN at CenterPoint Energy’s
Technology Center offers a view into the utility’s innovative use of technology, which is designed to
improve energy efficiency and electric service.
CenterPoint Energy, which began a limited deployment of 10,000 electric and 100 gas advanced meters
earlier this year, is one of several innovative utilities that are members of the ZigBee Alliance. It is
joined by other utilities helping to ensure that ZigBee HANs support future energy management
solutions. That group includes: DTE Energy, Oncor Electric Delivery, Sempra Utilities, Southern
California Edison, and TXU Energy.
“The ZigBee home area network is installed in our Technology Center to demonstrate that products from
multiple vendors can work in unison. Our Technology Center allows us a chance to see how an open
standards home area network can be combined with our innovative Intelligent Grid technology,” said
Tom Standish, CenterPoint Energy Group President, Regulated Operations. “This combination of new
technologies is designed to benefit utilities and consumers alike. In the future, utilities should be able to
improve service and reliability, while the ZigBee HAN has the potential to help residential and business
customers take control of their energy use.”
CenterPoint Energy is working with the ZigBee Alliance and other stakeholders to create the standard for
wireless communication between utility companies and common household devices. This
communication protocol is expected to play an important role in delivering on the promise of energy
efficiency programs. ZigBee continues to draw support from energy regulators, the utility industry and
leading product OEMs who care about the amount of energy efficiency they can result from their devices.
Dozens of Alliance members collaborate each day to address this critical need.
"The CenterPoint Energy Technology Center shows the benefits of ZigBee as the best technology for
extending advanced metering infrastructure into the home in order to improve energy efficiency because
ZigBee is a simple and robust wireless standard technology,” said Bob Heile, chairman of the ZigBee
Alliance. "Demand for ZigBee energy management and efficiency solutions grows every day thanks to
the innovation of our member companies and their cooperation with partners, stakeholders and
government regulators. Everyone acting together will create a better energy future."
The ZigBee Alliance is nearly 250 Alliance members strong, with a presence in 28 countries spanning six
continents. OEMs and end-product manufacturers represent 50 percent of the global membership.
ZigBee is the only standards-based technology designed to address the unique needs of low-cost, lowpower,
wireless sensor networks for energy management and efficiency, home and commercial building
automation, plus embedded network applications in the industrial and consumer markets. Companies
who want to have input on developing the ZigBee specification and create ZigBee products can join the
Alliance by visiting http://www.zigbee.org/en/join/. The ZigBee Specification is available for free
download from the ZigBee Web site.
ZigBee: Wireless Control That Simply Works
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.
The ZigBee Alliance membership comprises technology providers and manufacturers worldwide.
Membership is open to all. Additional information can be found at www.zigbee.org.
http://www.zigbee.org/en/press/index.asp
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