What methods does the ZigBee technology utilize to achieve low power consumption?
• Battery powered devices can sleep for hours or days. The duty cycle of battery powered nodes within a ZigBee network is designed to be very low, resulting in very low average power consumption. • Once associated with a network, a ZigBee node can wake up and communicate with other ZigBee devices and return to sleep. Representative times as follows: • 30 ms (typical) = new slave enumeration • 15 ms (typical) = sleep slave to active • 15 ms (typical) = active slave channel access • What kind of battery life can a user expect? While battery life is ultimately a function of battery type, capacity and end-use application, ZigBee was designed from the ground up to support very long life battery applications. Users can expect multi-year battery life when using standard, alkaline batteries in a network supporting a typical application. For very low duty cycle applications of • Is there any truth to claims that WiFi and ZigBee cannot co-exist in the same space? No. Unfortunately, it is not unc
