NEC Electronics, Skyley Networks, and UBEC Introduce Development Kits for ZigBeeTM Wireless Peer-to-Peer Mesh Networking

NEC Electronics, Skyley Networks, and UBEC Introduce Development Kits for ZigBeeTM Wireless Peer-to-Peer Mesh Networking

NEC Electronics Corporation, Skyley Networks Inc., and Uniband Electronic Corporation (“UBEC”) today introduced development kits, including both software and hardware, that enable OEMs and system developers to quickly and easily develop low power, wireless peer-to-peer mesh networks ideal for the rapidly growing field of industrial and residential building management systems, lighting controls, automated meters, sensors, and security systems. The kits will be certified for compliance with the Enhanced ZigBeeTM Standard, to be unveiled by the ZigBee Alliance early next year.

The Software Development Kit (SDK), co-developed by NEC Electronics and Skyley Networks, features an easy to use graphical user interface (GUI), which allows effortless network development without the need for C programming, and includes a network sniffer, network viewer, node setting tool, and node monitor tool, for easy implementation of peer-to-peer mesh networks based on years of networking expertise.

The hardware platform, consists of several evaluation boards based on All Flash^TM microcontrollers by NEC Electronics, which offers the flexibility of flash-based programming and excellent power consumption levels, combined with UBEC's UZ2400 transceiver device, which integrates a wireless RF transceiver operating at 2.4 gigahertz, physical (PHY) layer baseband and media access control (MAC) layer architecture.