Zigbee Certified 13 Telecom Services Products

The ZigBee Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, has announced the certification of 13 products from three different companies using ZigBee Telecom Services. The Alliance has also made this standard available for free public download.

The mobile location-based services market is expected to exceed $12 billion by 2014 according to Juniper Research. These services will help businesses grow their customer reach by expanding communication through advertising improved product information and simplifying the process of locating missing objects and even people.

“These ZigBee Telecom Services products represent the first step in spurring next generation value-add services technology that will take advantage of existing telecom networks,” said Bob Heile, chairman of the ZigBee Alliance. “ZigBee Telecom Services is the single standard delivering a myriad of ways for telecom network operators to drive innovation, expand offerings and enable new solutions to meet new and existing business challenges.”

The ZigBee Telecom Services certified products are fully interoperable. They have earned the right to be branded with the ZigBee Certified logo and the ZigBee Telecom Services icon on product packaging and advertisements. These marks are designed to clearly communicate interoperability. The full list of features can be obtained from the company’s website.