Team C²J

Current Research

    Italy based Telecom Italia Mobile is working to implement wireless subscriber identification cards with Zigbee technology. This implementation will allow the handset to control televisions, act as banking cards, and act as mobile ticketing devices. These “Z-Sim” cards can be used with about any handset, rather new or old, and instantly gives the handset device a wireless interface.
http://www.cardtechnology.com/article.html?id=20061107G5FWMUBW

    A product and technology design firm, Archronix Corporation, is attempting to produce a product that acts as a gateway between Zigbee and Devices with Web Services (WSD) call ArcWay. This gateway will allow a smooth connection between Zigbee compliant devices and WSD without any extra setup.
http://www.cepro.com/news/editorial/16386.html
More information on this gateway can be found in the paper “Bridging the Automation/IP Gap-ArcWay: The ZigBee/Web Services for Devices Gateway” by Derek R. Flickinger, November 9, 2006.

    On November 9th the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute stated that they produced a Zigbee chip that operates under domestic and international standards at the 900MHz band, with possible coverage of 50 meters.
http://www.ddaily.co.kr/english/?fn=view&article_num=17189

There are also several universities publishing papers on ZigBee, here are a few examples:

• Security Considerations for IEEE 802.15.4 Networks
  Naveen Sastry
  University of California, Berkeley
  nks@cs.berkeley.edu

• David Wagner
  University of California, Berkeley
  daw@cs.berkeley.edu
  http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~kwright/nest_papers/15.4-wise04.pdf

• ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4 Summary
  Sinem Coleri Ergen
  Email: csinem@eecs.berkeley.edu
  September 10, 2004
  http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~csinem/academic/publications/zigbee.pdf

• PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF LOW RATE WPANS FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS
  Nada Golmie, David Cypher, and Olivier Rebala
  National Institute of Standards and Technology
  Gaithersburg, Maryland
  http://w3.antd.nist.gov/pubs/com04_golmie.pdf