Chapter 11. ZigBee RF4CE
Introduction
Radio Frequency for Consumer Electronics (RF4CE) is a protocol developed by a consortium that includes companies such as Freescale, Texas Instruments, OKI, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, and Sony. It defines a standard specification for designing remote-control devices for the TV, VCR, and DVD. The RF4CE consortium merged with ZigBee to produce the ZigBee RF4CE standard. Whereas most remote controls currently are based on infrared (IR) technology that requires line of sight, RF4CE does not have that limitation. The following are characteristics of an RF4CE device:
• Does not require line of sight to the receiver
• Supports two-way radio frequency (RF) communication between the controller node and the target ...
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