2001 Electronic Components has introduced the XBee Wi-Fi, an embedded module that enables low power, serial-to-Wi-Fi networking in the popular XBee form factor. Sharing a common hardware footprint and API with other XBee modules the low-power XBee Wi-Fi modules enable a single board design wireless products that supports 802.15.4, ZigBee, ZigBee Smart Energy, 2.4 GHz, 900 and 868 MHz, Wi-Fi and proprietary DigiMesh protocols. Ideal for energy management, wireless sensor networks and intelligent asset management, the XBee Wi-Fi offers 802.11 b/g/n networking and flexible SPI and UART serial interfaces. Four antenna options are offered – on board PCB and wire antennas as well as RPSMA and uFL connectors.
The module includes the 802.11 b/g/n physical layer, baseband MAC and TCP/IP stack, developers can add Wi-Fi to their products simply by connecting to the XBee Wi-Fi’s serial port. XBee modules offer developers tremendous flexibility and are extremely easy to use, By adding a low-power Wi-Fi module to the XBee product family, customers have the fastest and most flexible way to get Wi-Fi up and running on their systems. The XBee Wi-Fi is fully tested at manufacture and comes with modular certification for the U.S., E.U., Canada and a number of other countries, further reducing the time to market, development expense and design complexity.
