Alektrona, the company I co-founded, was heavily involved in the ZigBee Alliance as a contributing member. I was instrumental to helping the company manage it way though months of specification and implementation work that enabled us have the first ZigBee Smart Energy Profile (SEP) 1.0 certified broadband Energy Service Portal. Subsequently, I brought the same product through multiple certification test events which allowed the product to be first-wave certified for SEP 1.1. In both cases not only was our product certified, it was also used as a “golden unit” by the certification houses; they use it as a reference platform for the standard as they test other products for compliance.
designed the first certified ZigBee Smart Energy 1.0 IP Gateway and golden unit
Additionally, I was a key technical editor of the Gateway Working Group. Using my strong communications background and analysis of the pros and cons of other related industry specifications, I formulated, presented to my peers, and ultimately authored, several of the fundamental architectural elements of the ZigBee Gateway specification that was formally released in 2011.
key technical editor of the ZigBee Gateway Working Group
And, since the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, which operates in the ISM band, defines the bottom layers of the ZigBee 2007 standard, I became very familiar with its operation as well. I have implemented several lightweight protocols sitting right above the MAC layer for a number of clients, which did not need the additional complexity, cost, and interoperability that a full ZigBee stack would provide.
designed IP gateways for other low power wireless stacks
In The News
Jan 19, 2013
The Embedded Linux-based ZigBee Gateway Reference Design software James developed for Texas Instruments was announced at DistribuTECH.
