Joint meeting with IEEE Communications and IEEE Computer Societies
This talk will address the latest features of the ZigBee specification, plus next steps for the 200 member strong ecosystem of companies creating applications for use in home, commercial and industrial markets. Chris Leidigh will present insight on major corporations’ plans to offer new ZigBee products and services as well as information on how companies are implementing ZigBee technology to save money, improve reliability, and offer new services. Because ZigBee technology is expected to be embedded in a wide range of products and applications around the world, Chris Leidigh is uniquely positioned to offer observations on the dramatic implications OEMs and their customers could face by selecting the wrong technology or by simply ignoring the need to plan and adopt this next great wave of innovation.
Chris is co-editor of the Gateway Working Group and has just finished work on the new ZigBee IP bridge specification. Christopher Leidigh has been designing networking, critical infrastructure, and embedded systems products for more than 18 years and has extensive programming experience going back to the 1970s. He recently started Alektrona an engineering company focusing on systems for wireless sensor networks and IP gateways. Alektrona Corporation is a member company of the ZigBee Alliance where Christopher is co-editor of the Gateway Working Group and has just finished work on the new ZigBee IP bridge specification. Before starting Alektrona, he had been at APC for eleven years where he led APC’s product line of internet appliances for power control and management as Director of the Embedded Networking Group. Before he left APC to start Alektrona, Christopher was Chief Scientist\Research Director for communications technology investigating technologies in SCADA, LONWorks, RFID, IP protocols and security, low and high data rate wireless, including ZigBee.
