BLUETOOTH UWB ZIGBEE WI-FI

IEEE 802.15.1 802.15.3a* 802.15.4 802.11a/b/g

Specification
ISM frequency 2.4 GHz 3.1—10.6GHz 868/915 MHz, 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz
band 2.4 GHz
Application Wireless Real-time video Industrial Wireless LAN
connectivity and music, control and connectivity,
between devices multimedia monitoring, broadband
such as phones, wireless sensor Internet access
PDA, laptops, network, WPAN networks,
headsets building
automation,
home control
and automation,
toys, games
Max signal rate 1 Mbps 110 Mbps 250 Kbps 54 Mbps
Nominal range 10 m 10 m 10-100 m 100 m
Transmission 0-10 dBm -41.3 dBm/MHz (-25)-0 dBm 15-20 dBm
power
Channel 1 Mbps 500-7.5 GHz 0.3/0.6; 2MHz 22 MHz
Bandwidth
Modulation GFSK BPSK, QPSK BPSK (+ASK) , BPSK, QPSK
type O-QPSK COFDM, CCK, M-
QAM
Basic cell Piconet Piconet Star BSS
Extension of Scatternet Peer-to-peer Cluster tree, ESS
basic cell Mesh
Max number of 8 active devices, 8 >65,000 Unlimited in ad
cell nodes 255 in park hoc networks
mode (IBSS), up to
2007 devices in
infrastructure
networks
Encryption E0 stream cipher AES block cipher AES block cipher RC4 stream
(CTR, counter (CTR, counter cipher (WEP),
mode) mode) AES block cipher
Authentication Shared secret CBC-MAC (CCM) CBC-MAC (ext. WPA2 (802.11i)
of CCM)
Data Processing 16-Bit CRC 32-Bit CRC 16-Bit CRC 32-Bit CRC
Properties Cost, easy setup, Low power, high Reliability, very Speed,
low interference, throughput, low low power, low flexibility, device
device interference, cost, security, connection
connection wall penetration devices can join requires 3-5 s
requires up to an existing
10s network in
under 30 ms
Protocol ZigBee Z-Wave UWB Wibree,B INSTEO Wavenis
LE N

IEEE 802.15.4 - 802.15. 802.15.1 - -

Standard 4a
Frequecy 868/915 868/908 3.1— 2.4 GHz 904 MHz 433/868/91
Band MHz, 2.4 MHz 10.6 5 MHz
GHz GHz
Data rate 20/40/250 9.6/40, 850 1 Mbps 38.4 19.2 Kbps
Kbps 200 Kbps Mbps Kbps
Modulation BPSK/ O- FSK/GFSK BPSK, GFSK FSK GFSK/PSK
QPSK QPSK
Spreading DSSS No DS- FHSS No FHSS
UWB,
MB-
OFDM
Interference Very High Medium Very Low Medium Low
risk Low
Communicati 30(indoor), 30(indoor), 200(indoor),
on range (m) 100(outdo 100(outdo 1000(outdo
or) or) or)
Energy Medium Low High Very Low Medium Medium
requirement
s
Security AES AES-128 AES E0 stream, Rolling 3 DES 128
AES-128 codes, AES
public
key
Error 16-bit CRC, 8-bit CRC, 32-bit 16-bit CRC 8-bit BCH (32,21)
Control/ ACK, ACK, CRC, checksu FEC
Reliability CSMA/CA CSMA/CA CSMA/C ms
A
Network Size >65,000 232 8 8 256 N/A
Logistic Standard Proprietary Standar Standard Proprieta Proprietary
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