4.4. ZigBee Addressing
Addressing is the way in which a message gets from one place to another in a network. Postal (snail) mail uses one type of address that many are familiar with:
San Juan Software
221 Wood Duck Lane
Friday Harbor, WA 98250
USA
Internet Protocol (IP) addressing is another addressing method:
155.213.123.01
ZigBee addressing takes into account all the information shown in
Table 4.3
.
| Name | Range | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Channel | 11–26 | A physical portion of the RF spectrum |
| PAN ID | 0x0000–0x3fff | The address of a network within a channel |
| NwkAddr | 0x0000–0xfff7 | The address of a node within a network |
| Endpoint | 1–240 | The address of an application within a node |
| Cluster | 0x0000–0xffff | The object within the application |
| Command | 0x00–0xff | An action ... |
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