DSR's ZBOSS Open Initiative reaps benefits for its' member companies
October 6th, 2022
One of the main challenges currently facing the IoT market is to achieve interoperability across the vast ecosystem of smart devices and manufacturers. The key solution to this problem is a shared software platform, utilized and maintained by chipset vendors and consumer product companies, in a collaborative environment. ZOI provides the best on the market Zigbee stack to its members and sharing the development efforts between multiple companies creates a more robust product that benefits all participants and their customers, along with users who utilize the products built on ZOI. Members can prioritize new features and provide the code for the implementation. These features are implemented swiftly by making pull requests, thus benefiting their customers.
Multiple silicon vendors are already supporting this initiative, and it continues to expand. It utilizes modern ways of working with Git, Confluence, and other tools to create a current code base that gives developers a huge benefit as they can fix things and collaborate faster, significantly reducing the product development lifecycle. Join ZOI to gain access to ZBOSS r23 and Zigbee Direct and greatly reduce issues of interoperability, simplify development for manufacturers, and lower your R&D costs.
ZBOSS
ZBOSS is a hardware agnostic, cross-platform, high-performance Zigbee® software protocol stack developed by DSR Corporation. DSR Corporation is an original pioneer of the IoT market, with a proven track record and broad expertise in the wireless industry and beyond. DSR’s Zigbee portfolio stretches back to 2009 and has resulted in substantial amount of Zigbee and wireless-related problem-solving experience around the globe.
ZBOSS features cross-platform support, multi-tasking, fixed memory footprint, OS-less configuration, and an easy-to-use API. It is an official Zigbee® stack for Nordic Semiconductor and ON Semiconductor, and also supports multiple SoCs, MCUs, and transceivers from Texas Instruments, Qorvo, ARM, Telink, UBEC, Microchip, and other chip vendors. Moreover, multiple Zigbee® 3.0 certified products are powered by ZBOSS. Over 200 smart devices from more than 40 vendors have been tested, successfully, for interoperability with ZBOSS.
Benefits
- Hardware Independent
- Cross-platform: OS layer for minimum effort porting
- OS-less configuration
- Fixed memory footprint
- Optimized memory usage: low RAM capacity on targeted device
Features
- Zigbee 3.0
- All device roles (ZC, ZR, ZED)
- Zigbee Cluster library (building blocks for consumer devices)
- Zigbee Green Power
- Smart Energy 1.4
- Control4 ecosystem support
- All Hubs support
- Sub-GHz band support
- Zigbee Direct
- Development tools like ZBOSS Network Simulator, Wireshark support and embedded diagnostic features
Access DSR’s ZBOSS stack through the ZBOSS Open Initiative at https://dsr-zoi.com.
About DSR Corporation
DSR Corporation (DSR) is a professional products and services software development firm headquartered in Denver, Colorado. DSR Corporation has been developing products in wireless technology since 2001, releasing cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) systems since 2006. DSR is the ultimate end-to-end IoT partner for many companies around the world and within different IoT verticals. DSR has delivered solutions in enabling wireless communications in products, embedded software for gateways and sensors, application integration layer, cloud backend, end-user apps (mobile and web), and general technology consulting with niche expertise. DSR is one of a handful of companies around the world that develops solutions covering the entire product spectrum - from the lowest level (hardware layer) to the top-level user apps. DSR is a big supporter of open standards and flexible development, making us technology and vendor agnostic because we understand that not all solutions fit all use cases and business models. We are able to do this because of our extensive experience in different areas and our commitment to quality, recognized by our work in the Japanese market.