Zigbee IEEE 802.15.4 Standard for Building Automation

Wireless building automation is one of the emerging technologies nowadays. Currently, InfraRed, Radio Frequency, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are been used for this purpose but they have numerous disadvantages associated with them such as high complexity and higher power consumption. But, certain wireless monitoring and control applications for building automation demand lower power consumption, less complexity, more reliability and increased range of communication. In order to achieve this, we have proposed the use of low cost, low power, easy to use, efficient and reliable technology called Zigbee that is based upon IEEE 802.15.4 standard for Building Automation. The hardware has been implemented successfully using XBEE Pro Series1 radios (XBP24-AWI-001) and has been tested for validation effectively.