Ember Corporation today announced at the Milan ZigBee Open House that its fourth-generation embedded wireless mesh networking platform has passed ZigBee certification testing. The new EM250 ZigBee™ system-on-a-chip (SoC) with EmberZNet 2.2 ZigBee network stack is the second Ember platform to achieve ZigBee-compliant status.Introduced last June, this 802.15.4/ZigBee-based semiconductor system integrates a programmable microprocessor, RF radio, network protocol stack and memory into a tiny, single-chip solution smaller than a shirt button. Achieving official ZigBee-compliant status benefits Ember’s customers and partners by bringing a number of benefits, including:
- ZigBee-compliant marketing and promotional validation for their products,
- assured interoperability with other vendor’s ZigBee-compliant platform based products,
- additional consumer credibility and market acceptance for their products, and
- assurance that their own end-user products will have to undergo minimal ZigBee platform compliance when they undergo third-party testing, thus speeding product entry into the market.
ZigBee: Wireless Control That Simply Works
The ZigBee Alliance is an association of companies working together to enable reliable, cost-effective, low-power, wirelessly networked, monitoring and control products based on an open global standard. The ZigBee Alliance is a rapidly growing, non-profit industry consortium of leading semiconductor manufacturers, technology providers, OEMs, and end-users worldwide. Membership is open to all. Additional information can be found at www.zigbee.org.
About Ember Corporation
Ember enables communication among embedded microcontrollers with standards-based wireless mesh networking semiconductors and software. Ember helps its customers to automate home appliances, lower energy consumption in buildings, keep borders and infrastructure secure, and control industrial processes, just to name four of the many diverse applications being developed by Ember’s more than 100 customers. Spun out of MIT in 2001, Ember is headquartered in Boston and has its radio development center in Cambridge, England, and distributors worldwide. Ember is a lead member of the ZigBee Alliance, and its platform is the National Technical Systems’ (NTS) “Golden Suite” for 802.15.4/ZigBee interoperability testing. For more information, please visit www.ember.com.
