Silicon chip and software solution for intelligent interconnects, leading suppliers Silicon Labs today announced a series of complete Zigbee product reference designs, design aims to help developers reduce product listing time, and simplify development based on ZigBee's home automation, interconnection and intelligent gateway products. In the first series of turnkey IoT solutions launched by Silicon Labs, new references include all hardware, firmware and software tools required for developers to build interoperability, scalable, and functional Internet home products, and all based on Silicon Labs. Powerful and industry-leading Zigbee "Golden Unit" Intelligent Home (HA 1.2) Software Software Protocol Stack and ZigBee System (SOC) Network Network Technology.
Lee Ratliff, Chief Analyst, IHS Technology, Internet and Internet of Things, said: "The Internet is one of the most attractive markets in wireless connectivity, such as home automation and interconnecting, etc., a large number of applications are driving their development, and the growth rate is extremely fast. IHS is forecast that the shipments of Internet household equipment will increase from 59 million in 2015 to $ 93 million in 2018. The compound annual growth rate exceeds 48% .ratliff believes that successful Internet home products must be based on standards User is easy to deploy, designed to run in real world, and can solve specific problems with minimal complexity. "
Silicon Labs has a cost-effective reference design that greatly simplifies the development of the ZigBee product (such as lights, dimming switches, door / window contact sensors, etc.) in the Internet home network. With more and more consumers buy "Do HOME Depot and Lowes" to buy "do their own" interconnected family products, this design is simple to convert to excellent convenience.
Silicon Labs ZigBee Interconnect Reference Design has a wireless lighting board and a plug-in demo board for fast demos and tests. The gold unit ZigBee protocol stack allows LED lights to be reliable, interoperable, and leaving the mesh network, also supports extending from several to hundreds of unequal light nodes in the same network. Interconnects can support white light, color temperature regulation and RGB color settings and dimming.
The Silicon Labs-based home automation reference design includes a capacitive sensor dimming switch and a small size door / window contact sensor. The dimming switch provides color selection, color adjustment, and dimming control functions that are not supported by traditional switches. Unlike traditional switches, these wireless, battery powered switches are not active mechanical components, and can be placed at home anywhere. The switch design uses Silicon Labs EFM8 capacitor sensing MCU to detect different user gestures (touch, holding and sliding). The contact sensor reference design provides all the tools required to create a wireless, battery-powered sensor that can be monitored / window position (open or off), with one of the very practical features that automatically trigger an indoor lighting.
Silicon Labs is provided to the developer's two ZigBee gateway options, making the reference design more complete:
Plug and Play Usb virtual gateway, you can work with any PC development platform, and support Windows, OS X, and Linux Environments, as virtual machines;
Select the Wi-Fi / Ethernet gateway reference design for "out of the box", which is based on an embedded Linux computer system.
These two gateway options allow developers to control and monitor ZigBee HA 1.2 compatible financing through Wi-Fi on any of a web browser (such as smartphone or tablet). Using intuitive, web-based user interfaces, developers can easily create rules between ZigBee terminal devices including lamps, dimming switches, and contact sensors.
Interconnect lighting and home automation reference design support the following features:
Silicon Labs leading EM358X mesh network SOC, integrated ARM · Cortex · -m3 processor kernel and low power 2.4GHz 802.15.4 transceiver.
Extending the low power design of battery life: Under a single CR2032 button battery, dimming switch has supported time up to 3 years, and the contact sensor support time is up to 5 years.
Silicon Labs Gold Unit Zigbee Pro Certified Software Protocol Stack and ZigBee HA 1.2 certified application, support interoperability with other HA 1.2 authentication devices.
OTA Zigbee update, the future can be upgraded to Silicon Labs Thread software.
Support for dozens of network network capacity to hundreds of independent selection nodes, do not require high cost re-wiring for existing systems.
For simplified design, the best wireless development kit with configuration and debugging tools, as well as the EM358X SOC chip-on-package tracking port for network signal debugging.
FCC / CE pre-certified hardware for system configuration and fast product listing.
Complete Schematic, Layout Wiring and Material List (BOM) document.
Senior Director, Silicon Labs Internet Solutions, GREG HODGSON, GREG HODGSON, said: "Developers who create Internet home products want to get simple, high-performance, energy-saving solutions, and achieve fast, easy and intuitive wireless design. We have the latest interconnect lighting, Home Automation and ZigBee Gateway Reference Design meets the priority needs of these developers, providing the most powerful, easy-to-use hardware and software solutions. "
As a leader in Zigbee market share with more than ten years of network technology experience, Silicon Labs has become a trusted partner worth trusting in the Internet. Silicon Labs is a founded member of Thread Group, and is the first vendor showing the Thread network and provides a Thread protocol stack. Net network solutions from other chip vendors are often unable to achieve the expected goals in the real world, and Silicon Labs is powerful, and the on-site verification software protocol stack enables quick and consistency of connectable devices. Network, and reliable forwarding messages.
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