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ZigBee - the latest wireless connectivity for your cellphone
Stuart Corner
Thursday, 25 March 2010 17:26
Apart from its main cellular connectivity you cellphone likely has WiFi, bluetooth and even infrared communications built in. The next big thing in connectivity, we're told, is near field communications. Now, the Zigbee Alliance thinks we need one more'¦
Built on the basic specification are a number of 'profiles' that customise Zigbee for specific applications; and the Zigbee Alliance has just released a new one, for mobile phones: ZigBee Telecom Services.
It has been developed by a group of wireless carriers, telecom equipment manufacturers and other interested stakeholders in the Alliance and, according to the Alliance "defines an affordable and easy way for mobile network operators to offer innovative new low data rate based services that reach almost anyone using a mobile phone, freeing up scarce 3G/4G infrastructure for higher end services."
A Zigbee radio is so small it could be incorporated into the SIM card, meaning that authentication is strong. So, according to the Alliance, a ZigBee phone could "allow an already seated bus passenger to buy a ticket for her ride."
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