Product Description

ZigBee is a short-range wireless networking standard backed by such industry leaders as Motorola, Texas Instruments, Philips, Samsung, Siemens, Freescale, etc. It supports mesh networking, each node can transmit and receive data, offers high security and robustness, and is being rapidly adopted in industrial, control/monitoring, and medical applications. This book will explain the ZigBee protocol, discuss the design of ZigBee hardware, and describe how to design and implement ZigBee networks. The book has a dedicated website for the latest technical updates, ZigBee networking calculators, and additional materials. Dr. Farahani is a ZigBee system engineer for Freescale semiconductors Inc. The book comes with a dedicated website that contains additional resources and calculators: http://www.learnZigBee.com


Table of Contents
Chapter 1: ZigBeeT Basics
Chapter 2: ZigBeeT / IEEE 802.15.4 Networking Examples
Chapter 3: ZigBeeT / IEEE 802.15.4 Protocol Layers
Chapter 4: Transceiver Requirements
Chapter 5: RF Propagation, Antennas, and Regulatory Requirements
Chapter 6: Battery Life Analysis
Chapter 7: Location Estimating Using ZigBeeT
Chapter 8: ZigBeeT Coexistence
Chapter 9: Related Technologies
Appendices

KEY FEATURES

* Provides a comprehensive overview of ZigBee technology and networking, from RF/physical layer considerations to application layer development.
* Discusses ZigBee security features such as encryption.
* Describes how ZigBee can be used in location detection applications.
* Explores techniques for ZigBee co-existence with other wireless technologies such as 802.11 and Bluetooth.
* The book comes with a dedicated website that contains additional resources and calculators: http://www.learnZigBee.com

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #450080 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

Review
From the Foreword: "I recommend this book to system designers, technical managers, wireless engineers, and researchers who are interested in gaining a comprehensive understanding of the principals and applications of ZigBee for low-power, low-data-rate wireless networking." - Dr. Robert F. Heile, Chairman of IEEE 802.15 and ZigBee Alliance

"This book provides a one stop reference for the 802.15.4 PHY and MAC Layers and the ZigBee Networking Layer including the practical challenges in the deployment of these wireless networks." - Clinton Powell, Freescale Wireless Connectivity Operations Global Platform Systems Chief Architect, Chair of IEEE 802.15.4 Task Group C and Secretary of ZigBee Alliance ZigBee Qualification Group.

"ZigBee Wireless Networks and Transceivers provides a handy reference for developers of ZigBee and 802.15.4 based networks." - Phil Beecher, Software Team Leader, Integration UK Ltd, Chair of IEEE 802.15.4 Task Group D and Vice Chair/Secretary of IEEE 802.15.4 Task Group E.

Customer Reviews

Excellent book for ZigBee and short-range wireless networking
This book is excellent for learning ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 and short-range wireless networking. I found this book very useful and it has answered many of my questions. I am impressed with its content and this book should be the definitive starting purchase for any ZigBee or IEEE 802.15.4 developer. I manage a small team of application engineers building proprietary wireless devices. We bought all three ZigBee books currently available on the market and we like this book the most.

Here are my comments regarding this book:

Pros:
1. Excellent introduction to ZigBee and IEEE 802.15.4. This book is well written and started us on the right track. The book goes beyond the basics.

2. This book contains a great introduction to the field of short-range wireless networking. Many of the materials discussed in this book (e.g., range calculations, battery life calculations, antenna selection, etc.) are useful and relevant, even if the short-range wireless networking standard is not ZigBee.

3. I liked the fact that the book comes with a website (http://www.LearnZigBee.com). We have used the calculators posted on the website to estimate battery life and various range extension calculations.

4. Coexistence is a challenge for us and this book answered most of my questions regarding coexistence of ZigBee with other proprietary wireless devices.


Cons:

1. The last chapter is a review of other wireless networking standards (e.g., WirelessHART), but it does not go beyond the basics of these alternative standards. We wished to see more information about these standards.

Highly Recommend!
I like this book because it has a lot to offer. It is an excellent book for understanding not only the fundamentals, but also many of the practical trade-offs in low-power short-range wireless networking. This is the only book I found that has done a superb job summarizing the entire IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee standards (more than 1000 pages) into a single chapter. In many occasions, I have used this book as a reference instead of the actual standard documents because this book has almost all of the most frequently used tables and diagrams of these two standards.

The book is well organized, has a lot of diagrams, and is very easy to read. I graduated from college couple of years ago and I believe this book has enough materials to satisfy the thirst of students in academy, while stays very practical and useful for engineers in the field. As someone who is dealing with short-range wireless networking on regular basis, this is the book I like to keep on my desk.

802.15.4 Ref book
If you are working on zigbee and 802.15.4 this is one of the must have books. A good overview written in an engineering context. So far it is the only book I have found that was really helpful. If you do Google searches for pdf white papers, use the TI,Microchip,Zigbee and Motorola vendor sites and combine with this book a very good picture of the state of the art is found...