!!! What is ZigBee and Z-Wave in the SmartHome Product? !!!
!!! What is ZigBee and Z-Wave in the SmartHome Product? !!!
Those who want to make their home as smartphones in the future have already begun to search this SmartHome on their own and in some other places. I can say I have read many foreign terms and categories while going to the SmartHome sector. ZigBee and Z-Wave's products are in the top row in the Smartcom sector. What is this actually in ZigBee and Z-Wave? To answer this question, I'm writing about today's tune. All of these two things and the difference between them, I will try to summarize you today. So let's see what this ZigBee and Z-Wave are actually!
ZigBee and Z-Wave
ZigBee and Z-Wave but not any company or organization name! These are two wireless protocols. This means that Wi-Fi is a wireless protocol, just like ZigBee and Z-Wave are two wireless protocols, which are used in the Habitat Smashtom product. The ZigBee and Z -Wave protocols are used mostly in the market of smart home products available in the market; However, certain SmartHome product makers use their own standard (such as Insteon). But ZigBee and Z-Wave are among the largest open protocols in the smartphone market.
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Most of the smartphone products have one or more hubs, these hubs work as a "middleman" between you and SmartHome product and your home Wi-Fi. It's as easy as you think that their work is not easy. As you might think, smart light lamps (such as Philips Hue, GE Link, Osram Lightify) automatically connect directly to your WiFi. But this is a wrong idea; These smart bits are first connected to their hubs through this ZigBee and Z-Wave protocols, and then these hubs are connected to your home network.
Now you can ask questions about why smart home products use the ZigBee and Z-Wave protocols using the hub because of not using Wifi directly. The answer is that the first WiFi becomes more energy efficient for smart home products, and secondly, Wifi charges more than ZigBee and Z-Wave. And thirdly the WiFi network is more complicated because the hubs are not directly connected to your WiFi.
Also, ZigBee and Z-Wave are used as networking mesh hubs. For example, if you have a bigger size of your home, grab a smart lamp than your hub, you will not be able to link it directly to the hub, but it will connect to another smart lamp and then connect it with the hub. If you have a large size-size house, this feature will be perfect for you, and it can not be directly in Wi-Fi. Also, due to the signal strength of ZigBee and Z-Wave being less than the WiFi, they ate less battery of your smartphones' products.
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But here's one thing to note, that all SmartHome products do not use ZigBee and Z-Wave. Like Amazon Echo, Nest Thermostat, WeMo uses these products but directly uses WiFi signals. Because these devices do not have any hub, they connect directly to your WiFi. But some smart home products use Bluetooth but these are not very popular.
Now you know that most of those who have HHMs in smart home products use digital communication with their devices using this ZigBee and Z-Wave protocols.
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You know that ZigBee and Z-Wave are the standard protocols for the current SmartHome products. So you might think that ZigBee and Z-Wave work together in one! Now let's talk about this. First of all, the ZigBee and Z-Wave protocols are almost the same quality, but these two will not work together; That means you can not connect to a ZigBee product with Z-Wave products. However, if your hub supports ZigBee and Z-Wave protocols, then you can use ZigBee and Z-Wave together. (Eg wink hub). However, this ZigBee and Z-Wave two protocols are an open platform, similar to the Android operating system, so many manufacturing companies are able to personalize them, while they carry the same protocol, you will be confused whether ZigBee and Z-Waves can connect together.
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For example, I can say Philips Hue Smutabati here. Philips Hue Bobby uses the ZigBee protocol, now you can easily connect another third party to the ZigBee supported Blu-Hue Hub, but it might be different depending on the models of the Blu-ray model. For example, you can easily connect Hue Hub with GE and Cree company lights; On the other hand, connecting with the Hue Hub to Osram Lightify Bulb, you will have trouble. Also, if you can connect to another third party blab with Hue's hub, it can not give you the full taste of mesh networking.
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At present, many of our products have not yet entered a product in Smartham (in the context of Bangladesh). And if we talk about the world then it can be said that you have installed a few smart home products in your home now; So this smart home system looks very easy to you. As you have Amazon Echo in your home, there are Philips Hue, MyQ garage door etc. These are very easy to use and will not give you any type of "electronic" pad.
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However, when you install more products in your Smart home, then these issues will also be gradually complex and configurable. For example, with a hub installed in your home maybe you can not control all the smart home products. Currently, ZigBee and Z-Wave are running together, so you are facing this problem. But in the near future, any of ZigBee and Z-Wave will become very popular, and then the manufacturing company of smart home products will use a protocol; You can easily control all your SmartHome products through a hub. But now before buying any smart home product, it will take a little research on the internet. Hopefully, today's tune will be great for those who are using smart home products and those who think they will buy in front. Today so far.
