SWAY034 April   2021 CC1312R7 , CC1352P , CC1352P7 , CC1352R , CC2642R , CC2642R-Q1 , CC2652P , CC2652P7 , CC2652PSIP , CC2652R , CC2652R7 , CC2652RB , CC2652RSIP

 

  1. 1 At a glance
  2. 2 2
  3. 3 Introduction
  4. 4 Design considerations
  5. 5 Wireless protocols
  6. 6 Zigbee
  7. 7 Thread
  8. 8 Similarities Between Zigbee and Thread
  9. 9 Differences Between Zigbee and Thread
  10. 10 Project CHIP
  11. 11Conclusion
  12. 12References
  13. 13Important Notice

6 Zigbee

The Zigbee protocol is a wireless personal area mesh networking protocol based on Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.15.4 and maintained by the Zigbee Alliance, which ensures continuity between versions of the Zigbee Pro specification and certifies devices.

A Zigbee network begins with an initial coordinator device that acts as the arbiter for decisions of the network. Routers or end devices can be brought in after the formation of the network to handle forwarding and routing of packets within the mesh. End devices attach to the initial coordinator or to routers, and do not route for the Zigbee network. It is possible to configure the end devices to sleep for long periods of time to preserve battery power.

The Texas Instruments (TI) SimpleLink™ CC13x2 and CC26x2 software development kit (SDK) has a certified implementation of the Zigbee Protocol called Z-Stack™ software.