Sharp preps Zigbee sensors
Next year, Sharp intends to bring out sensors with integrated Zigbee functionality which will permit the establishment of Wireless Sensor Networks. “Zigbee-enabled sensors from Sharp are expected in the second half of 2009″, Uwe Hock, product marketing director for electronic components and LSI, told the Sharp Innovation Forum, in Seeon, near Munich, this week.
Sensors which Sharp is seeing as being suitable for having Zigbee functions added are: light control; motion detection; smoke detection; HVAC monitoring and control; window/door open/close; entertainment control; ambient light and RGB sensor; dust sensor; wide angle sensor; high operating temperature distance sensor; high accuracy distance measuring sensor; multi-purpose distance measuring sensor; battery operation distance measuring sensor; long distance measuring sensor.
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