100 ZigBee Smart Energy Products Now ZigBee Certified

SAN RAMON, Calif., Feb. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The ZigBee® Alliance, a global ecosystem of organizations creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, residential, commercial and consumer applications, announced today ZigBee Smart Energy™ has reached the 100th ZigBee Certified product milestone, demonstrating market validation of recent reports naming ZigBee the highest rated, most effective technology to deliver Smart Grid benefits for utilities and consumers.

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Products manufactured by 49 different companies are available today in every product category needed to implement a robust ZigBee Smart Energy home area network (HAN), from energy service portals to meters, displays, programmable communicating thermostats and smart plugs.  These products make it easy for utilities and governments to deploy smart home solutions that are secure, easy to install, consumer friendly and incorporate as part of their overall Smart Grid architecture.  Since all ZigBee Smart Energy products are ZigBee Certified to perform regardless of manufacturer, utilities and consumers can buy with confidence from a variety of sources.

The Association of Home Appliance Makers (AHAM), whose members ship $30 billion in household appliances annually in the United States, named ZigBee one of three most suitable communication protocols for the development and implementation of the U.S. Smart Grid.  AHAM's evaluation also reported ZigBee Smart Energy version 2.0 as the highest scoring application-level protocol.

ZigBee was also found to be the most cost-effective and energy-efficient HAN communications technology available, according to a December 2010 GE Appliance and Lighting report.

"Continued ZigBee Certified product growth reflects market confidence that ZigBee Smart Energy is the right standard for utilities looking to help consumers be smarter about their energy use," said Bob Heile, chairman of the ZigBee Alliance.  "Growing market adoption of ZigBee Smart Energy is evidence that findings in reports by influential industry leaders, like AHAM and GE, meet market reality."

ZigBee Smart Energy products are branded with the ZigBee Certified logo and the ZigBee Smart Energy icon on product packaging and advertisements to clearly communicate interoperability to the marketplace.  

ZigBee Smart Energy manufacturers market products that help create greener homes around the world by giving consumers the information and automation they need to easily reduce their consumption and save money, too:

• Alektrona
• AzTech
• Computime
• Comverge
• Control4
• Cooper Power Systems
• Digi International
• Ecobee
• EDMI Ltd.
• Elster
• Energate
• Energy Aware
• Energy Hub
• EnTek Systems
• GE Appliances & Lighting
• Golden Power Manufacturing
• Home Automation, Inc.
• Honeywell
• InterCEL
• Itron
• Jetlun
• Kamstrup
• KDN
• Landis+Gyr
• LG Electronics
• LS Industrial Systems
• LS Research
• Millennium Electronics
• NURI Telecom
• Omnipas Inc.
• OpenPeak
• Plogg
• PRI
• Rainforest Automation
• Samsung Electronics
• Schneider Electric
• Secure Electrans Ltd.
• Sejin Electron Inc.
• Sensus
• Silver Spring Networks
• SimpleHomeNet
• Smart Synch
• Sunrise Technologies
• Telegesis
• Tendril
• Trilliant Networks
• UTILINK
• Wireless Glue Networks
• Wooam

The Alliance's ZigBee Certified program covers all ZigBee standards.  Today, 149 products are certified to comply with one or more Alliance developed interoperable product standards – ZigBee Smart Energy, ZigBee Home Automation™, ZigBee Remote Control™ and ZigBee Telecom Services™.

ZigBee Smart Energy – The Standard for Smart Metering and Energy Management in Home Area Networks

ZigBee Smart Energy enables energy service providers and utilities to wirelessly communicate with and manage common household devices such as smart thermostats, in home displays and appliances.  It improves energy efficiency by allowing consumers the means to manage their energy consumption more precisely using automation and near real-time information and additionally gives consumers the ability to choose interoperable energy saving ZigBee Certified products from a variety of different manufacturers and connect them into a home energy management network.  It also helps utilities and energy providers implement new advanced metering and demand response programs to drive greater energy management and efficiency, while responding to changing government requirements.  For more information and a list of ZigBee Certified products, visit: www.ZigBee.org/SmartEnergy.

ZigBee: Control your world

ZigBee offers green and global wireless standards connecting the widest range of devices to work together intelligently and help you control your world.  The ZigBee Alliance is an open, non- profit association of approximately 400 organizations driving development of innovative, reliable and easy-to-use ZigBee standards.  The Alliance promotes worldwide adoption of ZigBee as the leading wirelessly networked, sensing and control standard for use in consumer, commercial and industrial areas.  For more information, visit: www.ZigBee.org.

SOURCE ZigBee Alliance