Zigbee-based new approach to smart home

Smart home is a promising solution to improving the quality of people’s life.Much work has been done in the field,but most of these solutions are just based on home gateway,leaving much to be improved.One of its defects is the relatively high energy consuming and its radiation,and the other is that it is not available to the old home appliances which fail to access the internet.Full use of the low energy consuming characteristic of the Zigbee wireless sensor network,a completely new smart home solution is put forward in this paper.Without need of a home gateway and any modification for the currently used family appliances,the method uses the Zigbee coordinator as the central controller and the controllers of appliances as the end devices of Zigbee.It can realize a comfortable and smart home.Experiments show that the scheme proposed is feasible and it will be no doubt to be able to improve the quality of people’s daily life.