By Over the past few years, it is clear to see that there is an increasingly high demand for smart home devices. According to the Department of Trade and Industry, a house that contains a communications network which connects key appliances and allows them to be remotely controlled can be described as a ‘smart home’. There’s a multitude of different smart devices that can be controlled over Wi-Fi and monitored from anywhere, such as thermostats, smart lighting and remote controls.
If you’re constantly having to hurry back to your house to check the water’s not running or your hair tongs have been switched off, then you may be appreciative of having a smart home.
What is ZigBee?
ZigBee is the wireless language that everyday devices use to connect to each other. It harnesses the power of the mesh to connect every product to every other product. Therefore, if one of your products fails, the other will continue to communicate without interruption. ZigBee operates on the IEEE 802.15.4 specification and is an accessible global standard for wireless technology devised to use less-powerful digital radio signals for personal area networks. It has been constructed to be an inexpensive system compared to other personal networks such as Bluetooth.
Currently, a great issue in the current market of smart devices is the matter of connectivity. It can remain difficult to make each of your home appliances work together, and in particular, it can present a hard task to make different products from different manufacturers work in sync. Thus, ZigBee was developed and is now one of the leading networks in smart home technology.
What does it do?
Without submerging too much into the technicalities, we are going to explain what precisely ZigBee does and demonstrate exactly why you might want to spend your money on one of its smart home devices.
ZigBee is a smart home system that connects smart home appliances to communicate with one another – and most importantly to you. To be more specific, ZigBee can let your ZigBee controller communicate to your light that it needs to be turned on, due to some movement being identified. Essentially, it lets your lights, sensors and other products speak to your ZigBee hub and communicate with you.
You may be wondering why you wouldn’t just use other wireless technologies such as Bluetooth or Wi-Fi? Well, neither technologies accommodate the aim of ZigBee as efficiently. Fundamentally, ZigBee is a lower-energy form of Wi-Fi and safely meshes together low power devices that are positioned around your house.
Mesh Networking and Safety
The smart devices in your home simultaneously work together to create a mesh network. A mesh network is a system that allows each device to talk to the next. Compared to other technologies such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth which have the ability to lose connection when out of range, products within a mesh network repeat signals, to create one big web. A web that can then manage the support for a lot of different devices. Moreover, ZigBee uses the same encryption that online banking uses to secure the process – demonstrating that it is an extremely safe network to use in your home.
Orbivo ZigBee Smart Minihub
Orvibo Zigbee Smart Minihub – White
There are many different manufacturers of smart home devices, which all have their individual features and vision of what a smart home product should represent. However, why not transform your home into a smart home with Orvibo smart technology. The Orvibo ZigBee Smart Minihub allows you to automatically search ZigBee devices and automatic networking. With ‘Simple Connect’ technology developed by ORVIBO, the smart mini hub can automatically search other ZigBee devices and access them to the ZigBee network without complicated network configuration or code pairing.
Customers can get their own Orvibo ZigBee Smart Minihub and similar Orvibo Smart Home products from MyMemory.
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