ZigBee Wireless Standard - Ember - ZigBee Alliance Promoter

EM300 Series is Ember’s next-generation ZigBee chip family that packs the industry’s highest wireless networking performance and application code space into the lowest power-consuming chip set. The world’s first ARM Cortex-M3 based ZigBee system-on-chips (SoCs), the EM300 Series deliver industry leading Performance, Code Density, Power Efficiency. The new EM300 Series products include:

EM351 - integrates an ARM Cortex-M3 processor, IEEE 802.15.4 RF transceiver, 128 KB Flash and 12 KB RAM and EmberZNet PRO network protocol stack supporting the ZigBee PRO Feature Set
EM357 - optimized for applications that require more memory, it has 192 KB Flash and incorporates all the other characteristics and features of the EM351

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”ZigBee as the preferred standard for smart meters and Home Area Networks combined with the over-the-air upgradeability of Ember-enabled low-power networking solutions will ensure we can keep our consumers always up-to-date with the latest capabilities and performance improvements.”

- Petter Allison, Director Smart Metering, British Gas

In the UK’s largest smart energy initiative to date, British Gas, is planning to provide a million customers with electricity and gas smart meters, along with touch-screen in-home energy management displays.

EMBER — CHIPS, SOFTWARE, TOOLS

Ember update interview

Ember is the leading provider of low power, wireless sensor and control network technologies - chips, software and tools - that enable the Connected Home.

Ember's standards based networking systems simplify the complexity of integrating embedded software, networking and RF for developing low-power wireless products in a variety of monitoring and control applications. Ember's core markets include Smart Energy, Security Monitoring and Automation (SMA), Smart Lighting, Home Automation, Communicating Apliances and other wireless applications in the home.

Bob LeFort, Ember's CEO, discusses Ember's ZigBee wireless mesh networking technology in a recent interview with TMCnet's President and Group Editor-in-Chief Rich Tehrani. In this interview Bob gives an overview of Ember, the company's hardware and software, and how it is used in the smart grid and connected home.