Excellent news DIYers, XBee now is available in WiFi flavors. The favourite wireless module of Arduino tinkerers everywhere is growing up and adding 802.11n to its normal compliment of RF and ZigBee options. Development kits are available in now starting at $149 per board, with add-on modules like embedded or wire antennas and RF connectors clocking in at $49. It will not appear to be a massive deal to a couple of you available in the market, but anyone who’s contemplated building a Tweet-a-Watt or a Yarn Monster will appreciate having the ability skip adding a ZigBee adapter to their PC. Have a look at the PR after the break.
-Sharing a standard hardware and software footprint, low-power XBee Wi-Fi modules enable a single board design with multiple wireless frequencies and protocols-
MINNETONKA, Minn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Digi International (NASDAQ: DGII) today introduced the XBee® Wi-Fi, an embedded module that permits industry leading low power, serial-to-Wi-Fi networking within the popular XBee form factor. Due to the XBee’s common footprint and alertness programming interface (API), customers can now create a single board design for wireless products that supports 802.15.4, ZigBee, ZigBee Smart Energy, 2.4 GHz, 900 and 868 MHz, Wi-Fi and proprietary DigiMesh protocols.
“XBee modules offer developers tremendous flexibility and are extremely easy to apply,” said Larry Kraft, senior vice chairman of world sales and marketing, Digi International. “By adding a low-power Wi-Fi module to the XBee product family we give customers the fastest and most flexible solution to get Wi-Fi up and running on their systems.”
Ideal for energy management, wireless sensor networks and intelligent asset management, the XBee Wi-Fi offers 802.11 b/g/n networking and versatile SPI and UART serial interfaces. Since the module includes the 802.11 b/g/n physical layer, baseband MAC and TCP/IP stack, developers can add Wi-Fi to their products with the aid of connecting to the XBee Wi-Fi’s serial port. The XBee Wi-Fi is fully tested at manufacture and is derived with modular certification for the U.S., E.U., Canada and several other countries, further reducing the time to market, development expense and design complexity.
XBee Wi-Fi development kits come in now for $149. For more info in regards to the XBee Wi-Fi, visit http://www.digi.com/xbeewifi.
About Digi International
Digi International is making wireless M2M easy by developing reliable products and solutions to attach and securely manage local or remote electronic devices over the network or via the online. Digi offers the very best levels of performance, flexibility and quality, and markets its products through a worldwide network of distributors and resellers, systems integrators and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). For additional info, visit Digi’s Website at www.digi.com, or call 877-912-3444.
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