Who will dominate the future Internet of Things Zigbee, NB, LoRa

Who will dominate the future Internet of Things Zigbee, NB, LoRa

In the field of the Internet of Things, there are various communication technologies at the same time. Divided according to the dimension of transmission distance, in the field of local area wireless network, there are BLE, WIFI, Zigbee, sub1G, etc., which are widely used in wearable, home, enterprise and other scenarios; for wide area wireless network, there are special applications for low speed , LoRa, NB-IoT, eMTC, etc. with low power consumption and wide coverage of IoT services.

Zigbee

According to the latest data from market research firm Gartner, by 2025, 72% of all IoT connections will use short-range transmission technologies such as WiFi and Zigbee. Low-power wide-area overlay networks, including technologies such as Sigfox, LoRa, and NB-IoT, will account for 11 percent of IoT connections in 2025. 

Bluetooth, WiFi, Zigbee and other technologies will continue to coexist

We know that these short-distance wireless transmission technologies such as Bluetooth, Wifi and Zigbee have their own technical advantages, so as to play their strengths in different applications of the Internet of Things, but the competition between them is undoubted. .

In the wireless space, the product strategies of different vendors may be different. The emergence of any wireless standard is due to market demand, not out of thin air. However, no single standard can meet all wireless application needs, so multi-technology coexistence is a pattern that will not change in the short term.

Technologies such as Zigbee will complement NB-IoT and Lora

Lora, NB-IoT, Zigbee and other technologies are complementary. Their applications are different from each other. Lora and NB-IoT are aimed at ultra-long-distance applications, and operators need to do the docking. The operator itself has 2G network assets and can make better use of the original network resources. However, in the home environment, the number of nodes and the requirements for timeliness are different from those of long-distance applications. The general home environment will not have such a long distance point, and the number of nodes in the home environment will be particularly large. Therefore, Zigbee will occupy a very important position in the home environment.