Reference designs target ZigBee lighting

By Lee Goldberg, Embedded, Nov. 18, 2015 – 

Silicon Labs' recently-released collection of ZigBee-based reference designs will help manufacturers reduce their time to market by simplifying the development of ZigBee-based home automation, connected lighting, and smart gateway products. Equally important, Silicon Labs' attention to standards should help solve many of the subtle but irritating interoperability problems that have plagued some earlier ZigBee-based products.

The company says that the reference designs for the ZigBee-based LED controllers, dimmable switch, contact sensor, and smart gateway are the first in a series of turnkey IoT solutions, which will continue to expand over the next year. Each of the new reference designs includes the hardware, firmware, and software tools that developers need to create interoperable, scalable, feature-rich connected home products based on Silicon Labs' robust ZigBee "Golden Unit" Home Automation (HA 1.2) software stack and ZigBee system-on-chip (SoC) mesh networking technology.

Silicon Labs' ZigBee connected lighting reference designs feature wireless lighting boards as well as a plug-in demo board suitable for quick demonstrations and testing. The Golden-unit ZigBee stack allows LED lights to reliably join, interoperate, and leave a mesh network, as well as scale from a few to hundreds of light nodes on the same network. The connected lights can support white, color temperature tuning, and RBG color settings, as well as dimming.

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