What is Zigbee?

Zigbee is a protocol and standards-based wireless technology used for low-cost, low-power, wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) and internet of things (IoT) networks. Zigbee is similar to WiFi with Zigbee smart devices communicating via radio transceivers with microchips operating on the IEEE 802.15. 4 protocol, at over 2.4GHz. Zigbee is less powerful than WiFi and has a shorter range of typically 10-20m indoors, with a lower data transfer speed of 250kbps.