An Overview of ZigBee Specifications and its Industrial Applications

This paper combines the characteristics of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard with the ZigBee specification. The capabilities of both can result in the availability of a technology tailored specifically for the low power, low cost, and low complexity applications in the industrial, residential, and home sensor networks. In this paper, we review the properties of ZigBee, its position in the networking architecture, the functioning and exchange of data in its wireless sensor networks. We also discuss some practical applications of ZigBee.