ubisys adds “Green Power” feature to all its ZigBee products
Düsseldorf/Las Vegas, January 7, 2016. Today, at CES 2016, the renowned
German manufacturer of quality ZigBee products, ubisys technologies GmbH, announced
immediate availability of the ZigBee Green Power feature in its full range of ZigBee
products.
“Being able to pair all of our actuators including dimmers, power outlets
and window covering controllers with maintenance-free switches and sensors over the
ZigBee mesh backbone is a major advantage that we are pleased to offer as free
over-the-air upgrade to all of our customers”, noted Dr.-Ing. Arasch Honarbacht,
lead R&D, founder and co-owner of ubisys.
ZigBee Green Power devices operate without batteries or run on the same set of
batteries for their whole life span. They leverage electromechanical or thermal
harvesters, solar cells, inductive coupling to power-lines or other ubiquitous
sources of energy.
All ubisys ZigBee actuators support the “Green Power Sink (GPS)”
feature, which allows them to understand and directly act on commands sent by
ZigBee Green Power devices, without requiring translation by an intermediary
gateway. In addition, all mains-powered ubisys ZigBee products support the
so-called „Green Power Proxy (GPP)” feature, which effectively turns
them into access points for ZigBee Green Power devices into the ZigBee mesh network.
Devices that fall into both categories combine both building blocks in a so-called
“Green Power Combo (GPC)”.
“Combining energy harvesting with secure, reliable mesh networking is what
makes ZigBee Green Power an outstanding feature for building automation and other
IoT applications. The latest polish of the ZigBee Green Power feature provides
unparalleled application flexibility, security and resilience”, Honarbacht
highlighted.
The ubisys ZigBee Green Power implementation supports commissioning of bidirectional
Green Power devices, devices with multiple endpoints and various tunneling modes,
which cover unicast, broadcast and group-cast communication paradigms. The ZigBee
Alliance just recently awarded the prestigious ‘ZigBee Golden Unit’
status to the ubisys ZigBee stack for its implementation of the Green Power feature.
Green Power’s scalable architecture is remarkable. For example, a minimalistic
network could consist of the ubisys ZigBee Universal Dimmer D1 directly paired
with a ZigBee Green Power Switch. Such a minimalistic solution can bridge the gap
in case architect and installer forgot to pull the wires for a light switch.
Homeowners can later build upon this “nucleus” network, turning it
into a fully-fledged smart home controllable by apps and advanced automation rules
by adding the ubisys Gateway G1, motion sensors, door contacts, etc. at any point
in time. Any ZigBee 3.0 routers added to this network will further extend the reach
of Green Power to provide wireless connectivity to any spot in the building — not
only for classical ZigBee devices, but also for ZigBee Green Power devices.
The core networking-level (“Proxy”) functionality is available
in these ubisys products:
D1, D1-R, S1, S1-R, S2, S2-R, J1, J1-R, R0, C4, U1 and G1.
The application-level (“Sink”) functionality is additionally
available in these ubisys actuator products:
D1, D1-R, S1, S1-R, S2, S2-R, J1, J1-R.
The ubisys products are interoperable with certified Green Power products of other
vendors, including switches and sensors made by GreenPeak, Legrand, Philips and
Schneider Electric. New products will support Green Power right away. For example,
the ZigBee underfloor heating regulator, which is scheduled for launch at
Light+Building 2016 in Frankfurt, will also support Green Power temperature and
humidity sensors.
About ubisys
Promoting the ubiquitous deployment of smart wireless systems, ubisys technologies
GmbH is a leading Smart Home and Internet-of-Things company based in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Its broad portfolio includes core technologies like certified ZigBee Golden Unit stacks,
cloud services, advanced products including roller shade controllers, dimmers, smart
power outlets and heating regulators as well as complete, consumer-facing solutions
with gateways and apps for iOS and Android.
Contact
Marcel Apfel
ubisys technologies GmbH
Meet ubisys at the ZigBee Alliance CES Booth
To experience what’s next in smart connectivity, mark your calendars to visit the
ZigBee Pavilion at CES, January 6-9, 2016, in Booth #71344 within the Smart Home
section of the Tech West emerging technology zone, located in the Sands Expo and
Convention Center.
ZigBee: Control Your World
The ZigBee Alliance creates, maintains and delivers open, global wireless standards
that enable everyday objects to work together and control your world in the Internet
of Things (IoT). An open, non-profit ecosystem of 425 companies, the Alliance is
developing and promoting the world’s leading IoT standards across a wide range of
consumer, commercial and industrial monitoring and control applications. For more
information, visit www.zigbee.org.
Contacts
Mark Walters
ZigBee Alliance
Heather Chesterman (for the ZigBee Alliance)
Magnet PR Group
ubisys technologies GmbH
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