relationship/comparison ZigBee vs 802.15.4

AlanCollins — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 15:55:44 GMT

The MAC stack is complaint with IEEE 802.15.4 Standard, which is not a ZigBee only Standard. This standard specifies the physical layer and medium access control for low-rate wireless personal area networks such as ZigBee and RF4CE.

BeeStack is complaint with the ZigBee Alliance specification. ZigBee uses IEEE 802.15.4 as lower layers, but offering a complete networking solution by adding upper layers, such as Network/security layers and application framework.

Then BeeStack is based on MAC stack but with extra features. The main difference is that MAC may only implement coordinator and end devices, while BeeStack can add router devices as well, offering a whole new horizon on network configurations.

Here are some features and characteristics for both stacks:

IEEE802.15.4 MAC

Flexible

Robust

IEEE standard

Proprietary Networks

20-32k size

Is not

Application Interoperable

Simple

Mesh Network

BeeStack ZigBee protocol Stack

Standard Based

Application Interoperable

Mesh network

Small to large networks

70-100k size

Is not

Simple

Mobile

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