Zigbee home automation is a system that allows you to program a wide variety of different devices to run on its radio waves. It is a software package that runs on the computer and can be downloaded and installed onto any computer. The Zigbee radios work on frequencies between 7 channels and are very inexpensive.
To begin, Zigbee offers a number of different types of Zigbee radio systems: standalone devices, clusters, and smartcards. Each type of unit has the ability to capture, receive, and broadcast signals. Additionally, clusters allow multiple sets of radios to be operated within the same home automation network. However, standalone units cannot be programmed to do so.
Clustered Zigbee devices are created by using a configuration object and standard software features. First, the configuration object is used in generating the target zone frame. In this process, the zigbee cluster is generated from the lowest level protocol. Next, a destination address is chosen and then the next layer protocols are used to send the zigbee clusters to their destinations. At this point, the last layer of protocols, which are the capture and transmitters, are used to send the captured radio waves back to the network. Once this is completed, the Zigbee cluster is sent out into the home automation network.
In order for these Zigbee devices to communicate with each other and with the computers in the home automation network, the zigbees in the clusters must be captured using RF-enabled devices. After this is done, the zigbees are programmed to communicate using a variety of different protocols. In some cases, one of these commands will be followed and then the next frame will be sent to the network. However, in most cases, the network will adjust the frequency of the captured radio waves to ensure that the frequency is set to the optimal level for the network’s purposes.
After the zigbees have been captured, they are then sent into the next phase of the Zigbee wireless system. This phase involves decoding the captured radio signal into something that the Zigbee device can understand. This is done in part by sending a pre-determined sequence of zigbee frames to the device. At this point, the device will decode the signal, process it, and verify that it is what it is supposed to be. After the signal has been processed, the next step is to send the Zenerich broadcasts to the home automation gateways.
In the previous example decodes, the computer generated frames were sent first. The reason for this is because the Zigbee device was only capable of understanding a standard PC message. Once the PC was sent the first frame, it had to decode it again in order to make sense of it. After this process is complete, the Zigbee clusters will be able to receive signals from the other devices in the home automation system. This whole process happens much more quickly than what can be accomplished by manually transmitting each individual frame.