WPAN: IEEE 802.15 – Future
Developments 2
n 802.15-4: Low-Rate, Very Low-Power
Low data rate solution with multi-month to multi-year battery life and
very low complexity
Potential applications are sensors, interactive toys, smart badges, remote
controls, and home automation
Data rates of 20-250 kbit/s, latency down to 15 ms
Master-Slave or Peer-to-Peer operation
Support for critical latency devices, such as joysticks
CSMA/CA channel access (data centric), slotted (beacon) or unslotted
Automatic network establishment by the PAN coordinator
Dynamic device addressing, flexible addressing format
Fully handshaked protocol for transfer reliability
Power management to ensure low power consumption
16 channels in the 2.4 GHz ISM band, 10 channels in the 915 MHz US
ISM band and one channel in the European 868 MHz band