Established in 2002, the ZigBee Alliance is a non-profit association of members that has created a thriving global ecosystem. Anyone can join our membership comprised of businesses, universities and government agencies from around the globe. Our activities and direction are determined by members as they act to meet evolving needs in a fast-paced world.

Today, we've created a growing family of innovative, reliable and easy-to-use ZigBee standards.

Our Mission

• Leveraging our global perspective, we work together to develop standards that ultimately deliver greater freedom and flexibility for a smarter, more sustainable world. As a result of this focus, ZigBee:
• Provides green, low-power and open global wireless networking standards focused on monitoring, control and sensor applications.
• Allows products to run on harvested energy or batteries for years with its low-power wireless standards, making greener lifestyles possible.
• Uniquely connects dramatically different types of devices into a single network, giving you unprecedented control.
• Offers a variety of intelligent features designed to ensure devices communicate in any environment, and around the world.
• Is simple to set up and can easily grow to meet your needs and deliver years of maintenance-free use.

Market Leadership

• Proven technology and market efficiencies are driving industry demand for ZigBee. Consider the following:
• ZigBee specifies the only global wireless networking standards focused on monitoring, control and sensor applications.
• Professionals and experts from around the world design ZigBee standards for global use.
• ZigBee standards help make products both cost and energy efficient.
• Nine existing ZigBee standards create new solutions that deliver greater comfort, convenience and savings for everyone.
• The ZigBee Alliance is growing and has a variety of corporate, private and governmental entities as members who are contributing to the innovation inside every ZigBee standard.

ZigBee has earned a strong leadership role in the worldwide movement toward smart electrical grids. Numerous utilities and energy service providers are deploying ZigBee solutions because ZigBee meets their needs and gives them an inherently green, reliable, secure and easy-to-use standard, ZigBee Smart Energy. Only ZigBee offers ZigBee Smart Energy, the world's preferred wireless smart metering standard for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) home area networks (HAN).

Entire cities, like Goteborg Sweden, rely on ZigBee standards, as do hotels like the Aria and Mandarin Oriental at CityCenter in Las Vegas, and hospitals like Jackson Memorial Hospital at the University of Florida.

Our members sell a wide range of easy-to-use ZigBee Certified products using the ZigBee Home Automation and ZigBee Smart Energy standards that help consumers create smart homes. The homes are smart because home appliances, lighting, heating and cooling, energy use and security can now be controlled and monitored systemically rather than each device individually. This control and newly gained information helps consumers be green by giving them a quick and easy way to reduce energy consumption and costs, while helping our environment.