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Zigbee Technology

Vinita A. Batini, Prachi P. Kamble., Snehal S. Mharse.

[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
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Abstract—This paper aims at presenting the concept of ZigBee, the name of a specification for a suite of high level communication prot ocols
using small, low-power digital radios based on the IEEE802.15.4-2006 standard for wireless personal area networks (WPANs),such as wireless
headphones connecting with cell phones via short-range radio. The technology is intended to be simpler and less expensive than other WPANs,
such as Bluetooth. ZigBee is targeted at radio-frequency (RF) applications that require a low data rate, long battery life, and secure networking.

The ZigBee communication is a communication technology to connect local wireless nodes and provides high stability and transfer rate due to
data communication with low power. In the nodes away from coordinator in one PAN, the signal strength is weak causing the network a
shortage of low performance and inefficient use of resources due to transferring delay and increasing delay time and thus cannot conduct
seamless communication.

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1. INTRODUCTION 2. ZIGBEE NETWORK & ARCHITECTURE

1. Search for a Radio Channel-The co-ordinator first
In the wireless environment, the signal strength which is
searches for a suitable radio channel (usually the one which
sent by coordinators can be weakened as distance from it
has least activity). This search can be limited to those
increases, causing communication with target nodes to
channels that are known to be usable - for example, by
become difficult and abuse of the wireless resources.
avoiding frequencies in which it is known that a wireless
Therefore, it is difficult to perform stable and reliable
LAN is operating.
wireless communication with wide range nodes. It is not
easy to use the wireless resources using location data 2. Assign PAN ID- The Co-ordinator starts the network,
because the coordinator cannot search the location of node. assigning a PAN ID (Personal Area Network identifier) to
Also, the network. The PAN ID can be pre-determined, or can be
obtained dynamically by detecting other networks operating
in the same frequency channel and choosing a PAN ID that
does not conflict with theirs.

3. The MAC sub layer is capable of single-hop reliable

communications. As a rule, the security level it is touse is
specified by the upper layers.

4. The network layer manages routing, processing received

messages and being capable of broadcasting requests.
Outgoing frames will use the adequate link key according to
the routing, if it is available; otherwise, the network key will
Figure 1. Zigbee be used to protect the payload from external devices.
the wireless link can occur to the signal attenuation by 5. The application layer offers key establishment and
distance and the wireless signal fading by the transferring transport services to both ZDO and applications. It is also
media. Under the main goal to provide low-power, cost responsible for the propagation across the network of
effective, flexible, reliable and scalable wireless products changes in devices within it, which may originate in the
Zigbee Alliance has been developing and standardizing the
devices themselves (for instance, a simple status change) or
ZigBee network. Based on IEEE 802.15.4.
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in the trust manager (which may inform the network that a
certain device is to be eliminated from it).

Figure 3. Zigbee device types

4. ZIGBEE vs BLUETOOTH
ZigBee looks rather like Bluetooth but is simpler, has a
lower data rate and spends most of its time snoozing. This
characteristic means that a node on a ZigBee network should
Figure 2. Layered Architecture of ZigBee be able to run for six months. The operational range of
ZigBee is 10-75m compared to 10m for Bluetooth. ZigBee
3. ZIGBEE DEVICE TYPES
sits below Bluetooth in terms of data rate. The data rate of
1) ZigBee coordinator (ZC): The most capable device, the ZigBee is 250kbps at 2.4GHz, 40kbps at 915MHz and
coordinator forms the root of the network tree and might 20kbps at 868MHz whereas that of Bluetooth is
bridge to other networks. There is exactly one ZigBee 1Mbps.ZigBee uses a basic master-slave configuration
coordinator in each network since it is the device that started suited to static star networks of many infrequently used
the network originally. It stores information about the devices that talk via small data packets. It allows up to 254
network, including acting as the Trust Center & repository nodes. Bluetooth’s protocol is more complex since it is
for security keys. geared towards handling voice, images and file transfers in
ad hoc networks. Bluetooth devices can support scatternets
2) ZigBee Router (ZR): As well as running an application
of multiple smaller non-synchronized networks (piconets). It
function, a router can act as an intermediate router, passing
only allows up to 8 slave nodes in a basic master-slave
on data from other devices.
piconet set-up. When ZigBee node is powered down, it can
3) ZigBee End Device (ZED): Contains just enough wake up and get a packet in around 15 msec whereas a
functionality to talk to the parent node (either the Bluetooth device would take around 3sec to wake up and
coordinator or a router); it cannot relay data from other respond.
devices. This relationship allows the node to be asleep a
5. ADVANTAGES
significant amount of the time thereby giving long battery
life. The least amount of memory, and therefore can be less Standards based
expensive to manufacture than ZR or ZC. Low cost
Can be used globally
Reliable and self healing
Supports large number of nodes
Very long battery life
Secure
Large network capacity

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6. DISADVANTAGES 8. FUTURE SCOPE
Replacement with Zigbee compliant appliances can Monitoring anti collision between trains using
be costly. zigbee
No more secure than a typical 802.11 wireless Border security
network. Structural health
Can be confusing at first for the homeowner. Earthquake , floods
Traffic control
7. APPLICATIONS OF ZIGBEE TECHNOLOGY
1. Wireless Sensor Network For Multi-Storey Building. REFERENCES

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