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GreenPeak Celebrates Over 100 Million ZigBee Chips Delivered to the Smart Home Market
GreenPeak
Technologies, the leading low power RF semiconductor company, today
announced that it has shipped well over 100 million IEEE (News - Alert) 802.15.4/ZigBee
chips into the Smart Home market. GreenPeak RF chips are used in a wide
range of consumer products including set-top boxes and gateways, remote
controls, home monitoring devices for security, energy efficiency and
lifestyle applications. Many of the new set-top boxes and internet
gateways already have ZigBee (News - Alert) inside, providing great opportunities for
device and application developers to introduce Smart Home solutions that
can connect to this available home sensor network, as well as for
operators to offer additional services.
ZigBee is one of the three leading wireless technologies for the
connected home. WiFi (News - Alert) is used for high bandwidth, content rich
applications with access to power and Bluetooth is used to connect
wearables to smart phones. ZigBee, based on the IEEE 802.15.4 wireless
standard, is the low power version of WiFi and ideally suited for
connecting sentrollers
(sensors, actuators and controllers) to the internet with extremely long
battery life requirements. For example, remote controls using ZigBee can
operate for over a decade without recharging or battery replacement.
"Currently, most homes have about ten wireless devices connected by
WiFi", says Cees
Links, CEO and Founder of GreenPeak Technologies. "However, within a
few years, we expect over a 100 ZigBee or other IEEE 802.15.4 based
connected devices in each home. This includes sensors, appliances and
gateways used for monitoring and controlling the home environment for
security, energy management and lifestyle applications. GreenPeak is a
proven leading and successful ZigBee technology supplier. With well over
100M ZigBee chips installed in the market, we plan to continue our
growth in the ZigBee market as well as expanding into other IEEE
802.15.4 based communication standards."
According to Mareca Hatler, Director of Research at ON
World, "ZigBee is dominating the IEEE 802.15.4 ecosystem and is set
to lead the Smart Home and Internet of Things (IoT) market. Annual
shipments for IEEE 802.15.4 low power wireless chipsets doubled in 2014
and are on track to increase by 550% by 2020. ZigBee standards are
expected to be used in 80% of the 802.15.4 annual chipset shipments."
Visit GreenPeak at IFA & IBC
To learn more about our innovative Smart Home and IoT solutions with
live demonstrations, please visit the GreenPeak booth at:
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IFA
- 4-9 September 2015 - Messe Berlin - Hall 6.2 Booth 118
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IBC
- 11-15 September 2015 - Amsterdam RAI - Hall 1 Booth 1.C90
or make an appointment with our sales team - Tel +31 6 51231854.
About GreenPeak Technologies
GreenPeak Technologies is an award winning fabless semiconductor/system
company and the world recognized leader in the IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee
market with a rich offering of semiconductor products and software
technologies for Smart Home data communications and the IoT. The
GreenPeak founders have significantly contributed to the invention of
WiFi and are responsible for it being a commercial success used by
billions of people worldwide today. GreenPeak is recognized as a leader
in developing new wireless technologies for consumer electronics and
Smart Home applications, demonstrating rapid growth and adoption by
major customers. GreenPeak is privately funded. It is headquartered in
Utrecht, The Netherlands and has offices in Belgium, China, France,
India, Korea and USA. For more information, please visit www.greenpeak.com.
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