ZigBee PRO

A new feature set has been announced by The ZigBee® Alliance called ZigBee PRO to maximizes all the capabilities of ZigBee and facilitates ease-of-use and advanced support for larger networks.The newly released Feature Sets are designed to inter-operate with each other, ensuring long-term use and stability. Highlights of the expanded ZigBee PRO Feature Set include:
Network Scalability – Improved support for larger networks offering more management, flexibility, performance choices
Fragmentation – New ability to divide longer messages and enable interaction with other protocols and systems
Frequency Agility – Networks dynamically change channels should interference occur
Automated Device Address Management – Optimized for large networks with added network management and configuration tools
Group Addressing – Offers additional traffic optimization needed for large networks
Wireless Commissioning – Enhanced with secure wireless commissioning capabilities
Centralized Data Collection – Tuned specifically to optimize information flow in large networks

With the addition of these additional features to the ZigBee specification, the Alliance is shifting its attention to development efforts facilitating the deployment of the technology for energy management and efficiency, specifically in areas like public application profiles for advance metering infrastructure (AMI). Public application profiles enable end-to-end, multi-vendor interoperable solutions in markets such as AMI, home automation, commercial building automation and telecommunications.