Sept. 2, 2013: ZigBee Protocol Is Home Automation Leader
Bluetooth Is Fastest Growing Protocol
LONDON — Home automation devices employing the ZigBee open standard protocol were the market share leaders in 2012, with shipments of 4.5 million, narrowly beating out proprietary protocol offerings, according to a report by ABI Research. By 2018, the research firm expects annual home automation device shipments to exceed 351 million, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 78 percent.
Senior analyst Adarsh Krishnan said, “ZigBee is enjoying success in the home automation market because, as an open standard technology, multiple IC [integrated circuit] vendors are creating ZigBee chipsets. Quite simply, open standard technologies are considered less risky and highly scalable when compared to the closed ecosystems of proprietary RF [radio frequency] technologies.”