DALLAS, Aug. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments
Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN), the industry leader in highly
integrated connectivity solutions and a Promoter member of the
ZigBee® Alliance, today announced that it achieved ZigBee Certified
status for its ZigBee Smart Energy™ 1.1 standard implementation,
recently introduced by the ZigBee Alliance. TI is pleased to
announce the availability of its new Z-Stack™ 2.5.0 with support
for ZigBee Smart Energy 1.1, geared towards home area networks
(HAN). Proving its leadership in the development of low-power
wireless applications such as industrial monitoring and control,
smart metering, building automation and more, TI's ZigBee Smart
Energy 1.1 profile gives developers the confidence and means
necessary to interoperate with various implementations. TI's
Z-Stack 2.5.0 with ZigBee Smart Energy 1.1 is available
royalty-free to all using TI's ZigBee-compliant hardware platforms.
For more information, visit www.ti.com/zigbee-pr.
"TI is committed to staying ahead of the game in the
connectivity space, and we are thrilled to provide our customers
with the latest features of ZigBee Smart Energy 1.1," said
Laurent Giai-Miniet, managing
director, Low-Power RF business unit, TI. "Our new Z-Stack 2.5.0
will unleash a wider range of interoperable, consumer-friendly HAN
products for monitoring things such as energy consumption – a key
requirement for the U.S. Department of Energy Smart Grid program
and initiatives out of the European Union. We will also continue to
deliver Smart Energy-compliant software for future generations,
including the forthcoming SEP 2.0."
"As a leader in the Smart Grid industry, Sensus is pleased to
work with TI in driving greener utilities and energy production
worldwide," said David Ayers, vice
president of engineering at Sensus. "The Sensus iCON® smart
meters use Smart Energy 1.1 to deliver information that helps
consumers make better decisions on when and how they can save
energy. This is a pivotal step in smarter energy consumption, and –
together with TI – we are dedicated to continued advancements in
this space."
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Key features and benefits: TI's
ZigBee Smart Energy 1.1-compliant solutions
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Features
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Benefits
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Complete ZigBee solutions set
includes proven, cost-effective, easy-to-use hardware, software and
sample applications
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- All-in-one package speeds
development time, enables designers to bring end products to market
more quickly and efficiently
- Eliminates requirements of an
engineer to write code for Smart Energy end products, which reduces
development time by about two working months
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Fully compliant ZigBee PRO
feature set, IEEE 802.15.4 Medium Access Control software (TIMAC),
high-performance radio and sample applications
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- Drives lower-cost installation
for wireless devices to provide end-to-end date communication
system
- Ensures interoperability and
consistency with growing portfolio of IEEE 802.15.4 products and
platforms
- Enables excellent coexistence
with WLAN and Bluetooth®
technologies, and other 2.4 GHz solutions
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Backwards compatibility with
ZigBee-certified products using ZigBee Smart Energy 1.0
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- Allows customers to use existing
hardware, which saves time and decreases costs in the upgrade to
ZigBee Smart Energy 1.1
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Addition of new feature sets,
including: Fast polling, energy price acknowledgement, block
tariff, multi-energy service infrastructure devices, tunneling of
other protocols, over-the-air (OTA) updates, and more
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- Enables interoperable,
lower-power, greener devices
- Provides customers with more
extensive information on energy consumption than proprietary
solutions available today
- OTA upgrade enables in-field
upgrades of HAN devices to future versions of ZigBee Smart Energy
specifications
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Extensive worldwide support and
a vast selection of development tools, via TI and
TI's Developer
Network
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- Ensures 24/7 support to ease
design cycles
- Provides access to third-party
resources to help with debugging and product
fine-tuning
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TI's products and rich history in the ZigBee market
TI's Z-Stack is an industry-leading, Golden-Unit status ZigBee
protocol stack, aimed at the growing portfolio of IEEE 802.15.4
products and platforms. The protocol is compliant with the ZigBee
2007 specification, supporting both ZigBee and ZigBee PRO feature
sets on various TI hardware platforms such as the CC2530
system-on-chip, ultra-low-power MSP430™ microcontroller + CC2520
transceiver, and Stellaris® Cortex™-M microcontroller + CC2520
transceiver. The high-performance radios feature excellent
coexistence with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® technologies, along
with other 2.4GHz-based solutions.
With more than 15 years in the smart metering market, TI
delivers leading-edge system products, software and tools for grid
infrastructure, utility metering, power line communications (PLC),
and home and building automation development. TI delivers
state-of-the art ZigBee solutions for smart grid and other markets,
and will continue to bring new ZigBee developments to market in the
future.
Tools, availability, packaging and price
The Z-Stack 2.5.0 is available today from TI's website,
royalty-free to all using TI's ZigBee compliant hardware platforms.
TI's ZigBee development kits are available on TI's e-store. The
kits contain additional nodes for experimenting with the mesh
capabilities of ZigBee, and are preprogrammed with a ZigBee demo
application, giving customers ZigBee directly out of the box. A
specific kit also demonstrates the concept with a CC2530 running
the Z-Stack and a small MSP microcontroller running the application
code.
Find out more about TI's ZigBee, Smart Grid and wireless
connectivity solutions:
- TI's ZigBee solutions: www.ti.com/zigbee-pr
- TI's E2E™ ZigBee online forum: www.ti.com/zigbee-forum
- TI's Smart Grid solutions: www.ti.com/smartgrid
- TI's wireless connectivity solutions:
www.ti.com/wirelessconnectivity
TI provides the industry's broadest portfolio of mature,
low-power wireless connectivity solutions. With expertise in more
than a dozen technologies, TI ensures customers the best-suited
wireless connectivity for every type of application. TI's product
portfolio is complemented with the support and tools that customers
and developers need to quickly and easily bring wirelessly
connected designs to market. Visit the company's Wireless
Connectivity Portal for an overview of TI-supported technologies,
the full product portfolio, and example use cases.
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