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I think ZigBee has already been deprecated in favor of Thread, which seems to be slightly more focused on security, although it's still probably nowhere near wh
by mtgx 10y ago
I think ZigBee has already been deprecated in favor of Thread, which seems to be slightly more focused on security, although it's still probably nowhere near where it needs to be.
The vendors of Thread devices probably care even less about security and, for instance, choose to make every single one of their devices Internet-accessible instead of creating gateway apps for a local mesh network of devices.
https://www.threadgroup.org/ https://www.threadgroup.org/
http://www.zigbee.org/zigbee-alliance-creating-end-to-end-iot-product-development-solution-that-brings/ http://www.zigbee.org/zigbee-alliance-creating-end-to-end-io...
- Matthias247 10y agoI would have thought that Zigbee had zero traction some years ago. But since then Hue (and Lightify and other Zigbee LightLink solutions) popped up and now are probably the most sold personal home automation things around. The manufacturers do want for sure to push the ecosystem and are announcing more products based on it. Compared to that Thread has next to zero available devices (don't know whether Nest uses it). So I think currently it's a bit too soon to talk of ZigBee being deprecated.
- yvdriess 10y agoNote that ZigBee should have a lower attack surface than the Hue/LightLink extension. The regular ZigBee protocol requires a Coordinator in the mesh network, most of the LightLink protocol deals with doing away with that requirement.