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. The nRF52840 SoC combined with the ZBOSS stack is a
Zigbee compliant platform, ensuring interoperability and that implementation is according to specification. The nRF52833 SoC will soon also be compliant.
nRF5 SDK for Thread and Zigbee contains everything needed to get started and complete your Zigbee product development, including a broad selection of application examples, drivers, libraries and protocol stacks, fully supporting the nRF52833 and nRF52840 SoCs. It contains Zigbee-only examples and examples for running Zigbee and Bluetooth Low Energy concurrently.
Highlighted Zigbee-only examples:
- Light Control example - Demonstrates a basic Zigbee network with a Coordinator, Router and End Device.
- CLI Agent example - Demonstrates interaction with a Zigbee application through a command line interface (CLI)
- OTA Upgrade Client example - Demonstrates how to configure and carry out a secure over-the-air (OTA) device firmware update (DFU)
- OTA Upgrade Server Example with image transfer over Bluetooth LE - Demonstrates how to transfer a Zigbee OTA image over a Bluetooth LE connection and distribute it in the Zigbee network
Zigbee and Bluetooth LE multiprotocol operation
The multiprotocol capabilities are handled by the IEEE 802.15.4 radio driver. The radio driver is a generic, stack independent and system independent. It contains built-in support for multiprotocol, allowing for concurrent operation of IEEE 802.15.4-based protocols (e.g. Thread, ZigBee) and Bluetooth LE. The nRF5 SDK for Thread and Zigbee includes several examples where Zigbee and Bluetooth LE, for details have a look at the SDK documentation.