CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-The short-range technology dubbed ZigBee may be one of the major protocol stars of the year, said Cambridge Consultants Ltd., a consultancy firm.
ZigBee will do well particularly in the home and industrial automation applications, said Cambridge. It also expects the technology to follow the design path of Bluetooth, which has single-chip designs.
“Mass volume shipments will only start to build when OEMs are able to deliver products based on single chips,” said Nick Horne, manager of CCL’s radio communications products business units. “The system-on-a-chip approach allows complete ZigBee nodes to be built for around $2-a fraction of competing technologies .”
