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ZigBee - Low Power, Low Cost, Mesh wireless for control/sensor network (wikipedia.org)
12 points by jwilliams on Oct 5, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



We actually used these for a project that we did at my university. We have been doing a lot of research with high altitude balloons and we used these to create a mesh network between the balloons so that we could sync the data and get a more 3-dimensional view of the various measurements that we were taking. It worked perfectly on the ground, but a few of the devices had communication problems at high altitude. This was almost certainly a fault of higher levels of radiation and increased distance between the equipment than any flaw in the devices themselves. Overall, they are a very handy product.





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