ZigBee is a low-cost, low-power, wireless mesh networking standard. The low cost allows the technology to be widely deployed in wireless control and monitoring applications, the low power-usage allows longer life with smaller batteries, and the mesh networking provides high reliability and larger range.

Zigbee module
JS&T has developed a embedded antenna of wireless data communication Zigbee module, which adopts standard ZigBee wireless technology. This Zigbee module is in line with the Industry Standard applications of wireless data communication module. This Zigbee module can achieve transparent data transmission between many devices, and it can form a MESH network. This module has the characteristics of small volume, ultra-low power consumption and low-cost. It can be either as an independent data transmission termination or be easily embedded into a variety of products to form a short-range wireless data transmission solution.

Zigbee network has the characteristics of electric power-saving, reliability, low cost, large capacity and security, and it can be widely used in various fields of automatic control. The target application domains are aimed at industry, home automation, telemetry and remote control, vehicle automation, agriculture automation, medical care and so on, such as lighting control automation, wireless data acquisition and monitoring sensor, oil field, electric power, mining and logistics management, etc.

Advantages of Zigbee
1. Low power consumption. At the low power consumption standby mode, two No. 5 dry-charged batteries can support one node to work 6 ~ 24 months, or even longer.
2. Low cost. Because of dramatically simplifying the protocol, Zigbee reduces the requirements for the communications controller. Zigbee is protocol patent fee free.
3. Low rate. Zigbee can work at the low rate of 20 ~ 250 kbps.
4. Short range. Transmission range is generally between 10 ~ 100 m (32.8feet~328 feet).
5. Short time delay. The response speed of Zigbee is very fast, in general, it merely need 15ms from the into work state and it merely need 30 ms from nodes connect into the network state...
6. High capacity. Zigbee can adopt star topology, platy and mesh network structure, composing of up to 65, 000 network node.
7. High security. Zigbee provides a three-tier security model, including the use of Worry-Free Security settings, the access control list (ACL) to prevent illegally accessing the data and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES 128) symmetry password.
8. License-free frequency band. Zigbee adopts direct sequence spread spectrum of the industrial scientific medical (ISM) band. 2.4 GHz (global), 915 MHz (USA) and 868 MHz (Europe)

The Applications of Zigbee
Wireless Sensor Network( WSN)
Wireless automatic meter reading system of water, gas, heat, electricity meters
Wireless intellectual traffic control, signal lights control and street lights control
Wireless fire safety alarm, building monitoring
Wireless catering order, canteen's sale of food system
Wireless Access Control, Time and Attendance System
Wireless PTZ monitoring, engine room equipment monitoring
Wireless Store & Logistics, laser guns, bar code reader
Wireless RFID remote data transmission
Wireless meeting ballot system
Wireless mapping instrumentation data acquisition
Wireless POS Terminal
Wireless electronic bus stop board
Wireless Queuing System
Wireless OCS-A, electronic weighing instrument
Wireless car inspection and four wheels fixes position
Wireless parking lot charge system
Wireless medical monitoring system
Wireless driving test monitoring system
Wireless water conservancy and hydrological monitoring system
Wireless agriculture irrigation monitoring system