Zigbee

The technology

Mature full-stack wireless standard

Zigbee 3.0 is a complete IoT solution – specifying from the PHY layer, the IEEE802.15.4 up to the application layer called Zigbee cluster library. The networking layer (Zigbee PRO) provides a secure and robust mesh networking technology.

While the unifying the Zigbee application layer found in millions of products on the market today. This enables customers to create multi-vendor ecosystems and Zigbee alliance have certified over 2500 products to date. It is a solution targeting multiple market, including smart home, building, industrial, retail, health, and more

Zigbee 3.0 layers

Zigbee key features and performance

Zigbee network	topology	Multiprotocol
Mature	Up to 250 kbps (node to node)	Protocol concurrency
Secure	+1000 nodes	Bluetooth 5 / Bluetooth mesh / Thread / 802.15.4 / ANT / 2.4 GHz
	Mesh network
Global	Routers, end devices, sleepy end devices

Zigbee SoCs

nRF52840 SoC

Bluetooth 5.2 SoC supporting Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth mesh, NFC, Thread and Zigbee

64 MHz Arm Cortex-M4 with FPU
1 MB Flash, 256 KB RAM
2 Mbps, 1 Mbps, Long Range
Bluetooth Low Energy
Bluetooth mesh
Thread, Zigbee
+8 dBm TX Power
128-bit AES CCM, Arm CryptoCell-310
UART, SPI, TWI, PDM, I2S, QSPI, PWM
12-bit ADC
NFC
USB 2.0

nRF52833 SoC

Bluetooth 5.2 SoC supporting Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth mesh, Bluetooth Direction Finding, NFC, Thread and Zigbee

64 MHz Arm Cortex-M4 with FPU
512 KB Flash, 128 KB RAM
2 Mbps, 1 Mbps, Long Range
Bluetooth Low Energy
Bluetooth Direction Finding
Bluetooth mesh
Thread, Zigbee
+8 dBm TX Power
128-bit AES CCM
UART, SPI, TWI, PDM
HS-SPI, I2S, PWM
12-bit ADC
NFC
USB 2.0

Software offering

Our software offering for Zigbee development is the nRF5 SDK for Thread and Zigbee, a common software development kit (SDK) for Thread and Zigbee. It includes DSR's industry-proven Zigbee 3.0 stack, ZBOSS, optimized for minimal resource usage and high performance.

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Software development kit

For Zigbee

nRF5 SDK for Thread and Zigbee

nRF5 SDK for Thread and Zigbee is a complete solution for building Thread 1.1 and Zigbee 3.0 certified products. It utilizes the the multiprotocol capabilities of the nRF52833 and nRF52840 wireless SoCs. This enables single-chip application development supporting both Bluetooth LE and Thread or Zigbee, concurrently. It also has limited support for the nRF52811.