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A Practical Guide to the ZigBee Mesh Networking Protocol
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Get ready to create distributed sensor systems and intelligent interactive devices using the ZigBee wireless networking protocol and Series 2 XBee radios. By the time you're halfway through this fast-paced, hands-on guide, you'll have built a series of useful projects, including a complete ZigBee wireless network that delivers remotely sensed data.
Radio networking is creating revolutions in volcano monitoring, performance art, clean energy, and consumer electronics. As you follow the examples in each chapter, you'll learn how to tackle inspiring projects of your own. This practical guide is ideal for inventors, hackers, crafters, students, hobbyists, and scientists.
- Investigate an assortment of practical and intriguing project ideas
- Prep your ZigBee toolbox with an extensive shopping list of parts and programs
- Create a simple, working ZigBee network with XBee radios in less than two hours -- for under $100
- Use the Arduino open source electronics prototyping platform to build a series of increasingly complex projects
- Get familiar with XBee's API mode for creating sensor networks
- Build fully scalable sensing and actuation systems with inexpensive components
- Learn about power management, source routing, and other XBee technical nuances
- Make gateways that connect with neighboring networks, including the Internet
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Faludi is kind to the reader by using simple language in the old school of: tell-them-what-you're-going-to-say, tell-them and then tell-them-what-you-said.
I bought the book because although I am not a beginner to electronics, I am to ZigBee, and I am lazy and want a quick start to what to get and why and which "start-bugs" to avoid. Faludi does a good job here and tries to please everybody by including non-Windows based (Mac and Linux) examples where he can (this market is clearly biased towards Windows).
Evidently you could simply download the free ZigBee spec' and read it - it is not too boring and took me about four days to scan through it, but for the cheap price, I would recommend that even a professional would recover the cost in time saved from this book but evidently he will not be interested in the simplistic treatment of how to connect A to B, just the tips and hints and as a quick broad outline for both the spec and the parts range.
For the beginner this book is excellent with both diagrams and photographs of how to wire up the half dozen-or-so connections between one module and another plus very full descriptions + screen shots of how to drive the (mainly Windows based) software.
The firmware example-code is consistently of the simplest-only-to-do-the-principle (there is no cheating by padding with large amounts of code) and gradually the reader is taken into more and more detail about protocols and networking in a painless manner.
A huge amount of work has gone into this book to make it look simple. It is also up to date (late 2010). I highly recommend it to anyone.
I bought the book because although I am not a beginner to electronics, I am to ZigBee, and I am lazy and want a quick start to what to get and why and which "start-bugs" to avoid. Faludi does a good job here and tries to please everybody by including non-Windows based (Mac and Linux) examples where he can (this market is clearly biased towards Windows).
Evidently you could simply download the free ZigBee spec' and read it - it is not too boring and took me about four days to scan through it, but for the cheap price, I would recommend that even a professional would recover the cost in time saved from this book but evidently he will not be interested in the simplistic treatment of how to connect A to B, just the tips and hints and as a quick broad outline for both the spec and the parts range.
For the beginner this book is excellent with both diagrams and photographs of how to wire up the half dozen-or-so connections between one module and another plus very full descriptions + screen shots of how to drive the (mainly Windows based) software.
The firmware example-code is consistently of the simplest-only-to-do-the-principle (there is no cheating by padding with large amounts of code) and gradually the reader is taken into more and more detail about protocols and networking in a painless manner.
A huge amount of work has gone into this book to make it look simple. It is also up to date (late 2010). I highly recommend it to anyone.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you want to get started with Xbee/Zigbee devices (along with some Arduino) then this is an ideal book. Robert Faludi goes step by step through setting up some basic projects with some associated explanation, after which it is possible to move on and pursue your own projects. I found it very helpful.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I would highly recommend this book. It is very practical, and can be used by anyone that wants to learn a little about ZigBee or needs to teach an introductory course.
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Already finished to read, now I need to build the projects!!!
Fascinating stuff, the book is well written, even if sometimes is light on technical points and has lots of code and screenshots that will become obsolete in one year as new... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Giorgio
Very easy to follow, well written.
Overall I found this book to be well written and very easy to follow.
This book uses Arduino & breadboard examples. Read more
This book uses Arduino & breadboard examples. Read more
Published 7 months ago by jd_edmond
Excellent introduction to ZigBee and long term reference
First rate book, invaluable in understanding ZigBee networking. Comprises excellent introduction with source material that will be valuable in the long term. Read more
Published 11 months ago by G. B. Jeffery
Easy-to-read practical introduction to using ZigBee
This is an easy-to-read, hands-on approach to starting with ZigBee wireless. The book clips along at a fair pace and introduces the reader not only to ZigBee, but also Arduino,... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Martyn Davies
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