- Tue Jan 12, 2016 11:25 pm
#187293
Decide if your wireless network will be a star topology, fixed routing (hops), or self-forming mesh. The latter is very complicated and hard to make reliable.
On Series 1, Digimesh is much better than zigbee (as on Series 2), but requires all nodes to be Xbee.
I use IEEE 802.15.4 without a routing protocol stack since there are ways, similar to WiFi, for the hub of a star network to advertise its existance without device association. And run the MAC frames strictly per '15.4 with no proprietary content. With this, I can interoperate with any '15.4 compliant radio. Works well.
Use Zigbee only if some nodes must be Zigbee.
Zigbee is NOT a synonym for IEEE 802.15.4.
Zigbee is a network layer protocol, and '15.4 is like 802.3 (ethernet) or 802.11 (WiFi), though 802.11 is rarely used with other than IP.
jysgymg wrote:... this is an industrial scale project and not much of a hobby, which is the main reason that I pick xBee Series 2 instead of xBee Series 1 and I hope that using xBee Series 2 will be able to incorporate more complex programming from Arduino.Does your project require use of the Zigbee stack? The Series 2 can run only Zigbee. Series 1 cannot run Zigbee (licensing issues).
Decide if your wireless network will be a star topology, fixed routing (hops), or self-forming mesh. The latter is very complicated and hard to make reliable.
On Series 1, Digimesh is much better than zigbee (as on Series 2), but requires all nodes to be Xbee.
I use IEEE 802.15.4 without a routing protocol stack since there are ways, similar to WiFi, for the hub of a star network to advertise its existance without device association. And run the MAC frames strictly per '15.4 with no proprietary content. With this, I can interoperate with any '15.4 compliant radio. Works well.
Use Zigbee only if some nodes must be Zigbee.
Zigbee is NOT a synonym for IEEE 802.15.4.
Zigbee is a network layer protocol, and '15.4 is like 802.3 (ethernet) or 802.11 (WiFi), though 802.11 is rarely used with other than IP.