The ZigBee Alliance celebrates its first decade of successes this month, most notably in enabling the growing machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) trends and providing utilities and energy service providers with new consumer energy management and efficiency capabilities. Hundreds of manufacturers have shipped hundreds of millions of ZigBee products for a variety of energy management, commercial and consumer applications, helping consumers and businesses alike gain greater control of their worlds.
The Alliance reached the 600 ZigBee Certified product milestone this month, providing the most diverse selection of interoperable products for lighting, energy management, home automation, health care, consumer electronics, commercial building and telecommunications. The Alliance developed the ZigBee Certified program to ensure that the ZigBee value chain is as reliable as a ZigBee network.
Smart metering equipment is expected to lead market growth; the European Union, United Kingdom, Australia and other countries and U.S. states, like California, have set smart meter and home automation deployment targets for utilities. ZigBee Smart Energy™ is the first and only available Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Home Area Network (HAN) standard and is playing a key role to help utilities meet these mandates. Global revenues for wireless and wired home energy management equipment and services will reach $4.3 billion in 2016, according to a recent ON World report, and ZigBee equipment will capture almost half of that projected revenue.
While ZigBee Smart Energy and ZigBee Home Automation are the Alliance's most celebrated and adopted application standards, as of today, the Alliance has developed a total of nine innovative application standards that deliver advanced control and security capabilities along with expected product interoperability over the time proven ZigBee mesh network.
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