Computer - Meeting and WEBINAR - Low power Sensor Networks

Computer - Meeting and WEBINAR - Low power Sensor Networks - What's the Buzz on ZigBee?

Written by Ed Perkins

Sunday, 30 May 2010 16:43

Join us June 7 for a special meeting and webinar with Charles Lord, who is in town for Embedded Week, and learn about low power Sensor Networks and ZigBee.

ZigBee is a set of application profiles, built on top of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, which defines a low cost, low power, reliable mesh network with guaranteed interoperability with other like networks. IEEE 802.15.4 defines a robust choice of peer-to-peer, star, tree and mesh networks – all optimized for low-bandwidth, low-power monitoring and control. In addition to define the upper layers in the ISO OSI protocol, ZigBee has defined several application profiles including:

• Smart Energy — Defines the features of the Home Area Network for Smart Grid enabled appliance, lights, heating, cooling, and electric vehicle charging
• Home Automation — Smart lighting, advanced temperature control, safety and security, movies and music, water sensors, power sensors, energy monitoring, smoke and fire detectors, and access sensors
• Telecom (mobile) Services — m-payment, m-monitoring and control, m-security and access control, and location aware services.
• Building Automation — Energy monitoring, HVAC, lighting, access control, asset management, environmental management, and energy management.
• Health Care — secure and reliable monitoring of patients with chronic diseases

This talk with discuss the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, the ZigBee stack, and how the standard is able to support low power sensor networks with and without the ZigBee stack.

Meeting Info (see http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/2583)

Date/Time: Monday, June 7, 2010
6:30 - 7:00 PM: Networking
7:00 - 8:30 PM: Meeting

Webinar information: URL: http://my.dimdim.com/ieee-oregon
Call-in phone # 702-473-3463 (long distance)
Call-in pass code: 433306

Location: Tektronix Conference Center, Building 38 on Tektronix Campus, at the Northwest corner of SW Terman Road and Zworykin Ave., Beaverton

Tektronix Campus Map: http://www.tek.com/ir/bv_map.html
Max Station: Millikan Way Max Station. It is shown on the Tektronix campus map.

Speaker
Charles Lord , P.E., is a consulting engineer with over 30 years of experience in the embedded systems, RF, military and medical device pharmaceutical fields. His company, Triangle Advanced Design and Automation, is based in Cary, NC. Charles is currently presenting a series of workshops in Portland on embedded systems topics (http://www.tadatraining.com/week).

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 02 June 2010 08:33 )