Grid2Home Releases ZigBee IP Implementation, G2H-ZIP

Grid2Home, a communications software company at the forefront of smart grid connectivity technologies, and Smart Energy Profile 2.0 (SEP 2.0) communication technologies recently achieved ZigBee IP certification. The recently introduced ZigBee IP standard (ZIP) is meant to enable the Internet of Things on low-powered mesh wireless networks.

"The availability of the ZigBee IP standard is a major milestone in development of the Internet of Things as it leverages standard Internet protocols such as IPv6, 6LoWPAN, PANA, TCP, TLS and UDP," said Don Sturek, Grid2Home's CTO and chair of the ZigBee IP Working Group. "ZigBee IP, also called ZIP, is a foundational element of the newly released SEP 2.0 specification for 802.15.4 radio interfaces."

Grid2Home's implementation of ZIP, called G2H-ZIP, is available immediately for porting to a wide range of qualified platforms. Indeed, the solution is able to integrate seamlessly across a range of embedded real-time operating systems (RTOS), as well as high level operating systems like Linux. The G2H-ZIP solution can also operate with a number of ZigBee silicon solutions, making it device independent.

Furthermore, its compact size makes the G2H-ZIP suitable for low cost embedded solutions, while making it portable enough to allow efficient operation in complex gateways and home servers.

The ZigBee Alliance is a global ecosystem of companies that aim to develop standards that will ultimately deliver greater freedom and flexibility for a smarter, more sustainable world. Aside from the ZigBee IP standard, the non-profit association also recently completed development of and ratified the Smart Energy Profile 2 (SEP 2) standard, which provides IP-based information and control for energy management in home area networks (HANs) for both wired and wireless networks.

In support of SEP 2, Grid2Home also introduced G2H-SE2 Software, which complies with the specification and is interoperable across a wide range of devices and has been ported to a number of hardware platforms and physical layers.