Five major vendors of building-automation systems, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, Siemens, TAC and Trane have introduced wireless products based on ZigBee recently. ZigBee, a communication standard for ...

Imagine a golf course that can sense rainfall, and adjust the automatic sprinkler system to delay a scheduled watering session or focus on parts of the course that didn’t get as much rain as others.

What’s the point of smart home automation? To make every day tasks easier, of course! According to [Tomasz Cybulski], that wasn’t the case when he installed IKEA smart lights in his closet. It’s handy ...

DAVIS, Calif.—Zigbee Alliance’s Project Connected Home over IP Working Group recently updated the industry on its progress, outlining the Project’s growth and introducing the newly detailed ...

Modern factories depend on vastly more automation and intercommunication than their predecessors did to operate efficiently. Assembly lines need just-in-time delivery of components at each phase of ...