Is that the thing that's going to be the next big wireless thing? I figure it'll either be really big in a few years' time, or just another wireless protocol.
It clearly has a role in industrial settings, and likely in (commercial) building control. But it's in our homes where it could make it big.
Zigbee has the potential to change the way we interact with our homes and our household appliances, but like (for example) the existing intelligent lighting, heating, and security systems we don't all have in our houses, there are two main obstacles...
1. What we currently have is good enough.
2. The better way is too expensive due to the lack of a market.
Now if the likes of mobile-phone or car makers (we tend to change cars and phones more often than most other suitable electronic products) were to start putting Zigbee technology into their products, that would help to counter the second problem, and the first problem can then be solved with a little clever marketing...
Time to talk to the VC's...
