Wireless Short Distance Low Consumption Radio: Comparative Analysis, Applications

Wireless Short Distance Low Consumption Radio: Comparative Analysis, Applications and Markets

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Practel, Inc.
Published: July 2007
Product Code: R606-59

Description

This report addresses a group of telecommunications standards related to supporting short distance wireless communications and providing a very long battery life. Such communication is a requirement for various applications, including military and commercial: -UGS networks. These networks contain numerous ground sensors, often deployed in the mesh topology, and supported by radios for the time of their functioning. These sensors collect environmental and other information and deliver to the main node. -Public Safety Communications -Home Environment. The report analyses radio technologies used to support these applications. It emphasizes the importance of these radios low power consumption - they have to work unattended for months and even years. We identified: -UWB -ZigBee -Bluetooth -Wibree -NFC. The report provides a detailed marketing and technical analysis for each technology in this group. The goal was: -To identify major strong and weak sides for each technology -To analyze their major features -To analyze their major applications -To analyze the industries defining their major players. The most developed technology is Bluetooth with a huge market; it is lately consumed Wibree, which was originally designed to cover BT applications that require extremely low consumption. ZigBee, which can only support lower speeds of transmission (than BT), seems already the established technology for mesh topologies and industrial automation, can also support a radio node self-efficiency at least for months. In our opinion, UWB is the most promising and effective technique in the group of discussed radios. It supports: -NLOS communications -Covered communications -Speeds from several Kb/s to Gb/sec -Extremely low power consumption allowing low-speed communication node to be self-efficient for years -Combination of effective communications with radar that can detect objects location with extreme accuracy. Unfortunately, at the present time, UWB still faces standardization uncertainty; we believe (and ours believe is supported by recent developments in the U.S. and oversees) that UWB soon overcome its problems. Finally, NFC seems also has a bright future for specific applications that require to start communications at short distances (fracture of meter). The report is aimed to a wide audience of technical and management staff that works in the design and implementation of related networks and applications.

Table of Contents

1.1 General

1.2 Scope

1.3 Research Methodology

1.4 Target Audience

2.0 UWB: Technology and Market Specifics

2.1 General

2.1.2 History

2.1.3 Obstacles

2.2 Definition

2.2.1 Rates

2.3 Spectrum Allocation

2.3.1 Choices

2.4 Major Features

2.4.1 Communications Features

2.5 Standards and Regulations

2.5.1 Multiband OFDM

2.5.2 DS-UWB

2.5.3 Standards Bodies

2.5.4 Groups

2.5.4.1 Forces

2.5.5 FCC and ETSI

2.5.6 ECMA International

2.5.7 Ofcom and Others

2.5.8 Comparison

2.5.8.1 Impulse Radio- Pulse Link, Time Domain

2.5.8.2 DS-CDMA - Motorola and other

2.5.8.3 Multi-Band OFDM- MBOA

2.6 Applications

2.6.1 General

2.6.2 Home Security-UGS

2.6.3 Phones

2.6.4 RFID

2.6.5 Communications

2.6.6 WPAN

2.6.7 Imaging systems

2.6.8 Vehicular radar systems

2.6.9 Ranging

2.6.10 Public Safety

2.7 WSN-UGS and UWB

2.7.1 General

2.7.2 Details

2.7.2.1 WSN-UGS

2.7.2.2 Requirements

2.7.2.3 UWB Role

2.7.2.3.1 UWB-structured WSN-UGS

2.7.2.3.2 Features

2.8 Issues

2.9 Applications Summary

2.10 UWB Market

2.10.1 General

2.10.1.1 Major Segments

2.10.2 Forecast

2.10.3 Notes on Market for UWB WSN-UGS

2.11 Industry: UWB

Aether Wire & Location (localization devices)

Alereon (chipsets)

Artimi (chipsets)

BBN (radio, first responders)

Camero (radar, equipment for first responders)

decaWave (chipsets)

Focus Enhancement (chipsets)

Freescale (chipsets, systems)

General Atomics (chipsets)

Multispectral (RFID and others)

Parco (RFID-Health Care)

Pulse~ Link (chipsets)

Staccato (chipsets)

TES Electronic Solution

TriQuint (chipsets - homeland security applications)

Time Domain (chipsets-fusion of communications & radar)

Tzero (chipsets)

Ubisense (RFID-tracking)

Wisair (chipsets)

WiQuest (chipsets)

3.0 ZigBee

3.1 General

3.2 Technology

3.2.1 Major Features

3.2.2 Device Types

3.2.3 Protocol Stack

3.2.3.1 Physical and MAC layers - IEEE802.15.4

3.2.3.1.1 Frame

3.2.3.2 Upper Layers

3.2.3.2.1 Interoperability

3.2.3.2.2 Security

3.2.4 Platform Considerations

3.2.4.1 Battery Life

3.2.5 ZigBee Technology Benefits and Limitations

3.3 Standardization Process

3.3.1 ZigBee Alliance

3.3.1.1 Objectives

3.3.2 802.15.4- ZigBee Basis

3.3.2.1 IEEE 802.15.4 Radio

3.3.2.2 Application Specifics

3.4 Applications

3.4.1 General

3.4.2 Home

3.4.2.1 PC

3.4.3 Manufacturing

3.4.4 WSN-UGS and ZigBee

3.4.4.1 ZigBee Role

3.5. Market

3.5.1 Expectations

3.5.2 Segments

3.5.3 Forecast

3.6 Industry

Airbee (Software)

Amber (RF Systems)

Atmel (Chipsets)

Chipcon -TI (Chipsets)

Cirronet (Modules)

Crossbow (WSN, motes)

Duolog (Transceivers)

Eazix (Modules)

Ember (Chipsets)

Falcom (Modules)

Helicomm (Modules)

Jennic (Chipsets-Modules)

Freescale (Chipsets)

Luxoft Labs (Integration)

M&R Lawugger GmbH (Software)

Maxstream (WSN Modules)

Moteiv (Modules, SW)

Nanotron (Chipsets)

Oki (Chipsets)

Renesas (Platforms)

Silicon Laboratories (Chipsets, Modules)

Synapse

Telegesis (Integrator)

Ubiwave (Mesh Network)

Uniband (Chipsets)

ZMD (Chipsets)

4.0 IEEE 802.15.1 (Bluetooth-BT)

4.1 BT Protocol Stack

4.1.1 Transport layer

4.1.1.1 Radio Layer

4.1.1.2 Baseband and Link Manager Layers

4.1.1.2.1 Power Consumption

4.1.2 Middleware Layer

4.1.3 Bluetooth Security

4.1.4 Highlights

4.1.4.1 The Standard:

4.1.4.2 The Technology:

4.1.4.2.1 Sniffing Mode

4.1.5 Standards Update-Further Consumption Reduction

4.1.6 Profiles

4.1.7 Industry

5.0 NFC-Near-Field Communications

5.1 General

5.2 NFC Forum

5.3 Trials

5.4 Standardization Process

5.4.1 Highlights

5.5 Protocol

5.6 Applications

5.7 NFC: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-NFC Place

5.8 NFC Issues

5.9 Market

5.10 Industry

Artimi

FreeLinc

Innovision

Nokia

Sirit

Venyon

ViVOTech

6.0 WiBree

6.1 General

6.2 Protocol

6.2.1 Properties

6.3 Wibree - Under BT Umbrella

7.0 Conclusions

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