Z-Wave

With more than 4,500 products on the market today, Z-Wave is the world leader in wireless control. Bringing affordable, reliable, and easy-to-use smart products, the Z-Wave protocol is an open-source, interoperable, wireless, RF-based communications technology designed specifically for control, monitoring, and status reading applications in residential and commercial environments.

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Z-Wave Technology Essentials:

  • Low Powered RF communications technology that supports full mesh networks without the need for a coordinator node
  • Operates in the sub-1GHz band; impervious to interference from Wi-Fi and other wireless technologies in the 2.4-GHz range (Bluetooth, ZigBee, etc)
  • See the frequency coverage information here
  • The Z-Wave PHY and MAC layers are defined by ITU-T Recommendation G.9959. More detail regarding the frequencies used by Z-Wave can be found in Z-Wave Alliance Recommendation ZAD12837, “Z-Wave transceivers – Specification of Spectrum Related Components"
  • Designed specifically for control and status apps, supports data rates of up to 100kbps, with AES128 encryption, IPV6, and multi-channel operation
  • Full interoperability through layer 6 with backwards compatibility to all versions
  • Successfully bridged and trialed with OpenADR, SEP 1, SEP 1.1 and other Smart Energy protocols
  • Shares the same position in the NIST / SGIP Catalog of Standards as the IEEE 802.11 and 802.15 and 802.16 families