Atmel became one of the first companies to achieve ZigBee Certified product status using ZigBee Light Link Certification, a new industry standard to accelerate the design of easy-to-use consumer lighting and control products that will give consumers the ability to wirelessly control their LED fixtures, light bulbs, timers, remotes and switches within their homes.
ZigBee Light Link provides a global standard for interoperable and very easy-to-use consumer lighting and control products. In addition, the standard allows consumers to change lighting remotely to reflect ambiance, task or season, all while managing energy use and making their homes greener. There are a number of industry advantages, including single-platform control of multiple devices, including lamps, switches, dimmers, timers and remote controls. The standard also enables the lighting control platforms to control up to 255 devices.
With this reference implementation for ZigBee Light Link, Atmel has achieved ‘golden unit’ status, making it the benchmark against which future ZigBee Certified products designed to this standard will be tested. Known for its RF performance and low power consumption, the ATmega128RFA1 wireless MCU serves as the hardware platform for this implementation.
Designed to allow engineers the ability to manage multiple lighting devices on a single network, this reference design integrates the above device on an RF4CE-EK evaluation kit with ZigBee Light Link profile software stack ported onto the system.
The ATmega128RFA1 consumes 12,5 mA in active receive mode, and receiver sensitivity of -101 dBm. The ZigBee Light Link reference implementation can also be used with Atmel’s LED drivers for colour mixing, system management and advanced dimming in commercial, industrial or architectural solid-state lighting applications.
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