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    Top 12 ZigBee Apps

    Jan. 12, 2006
    Monitoring and control of lights, HVAC, and security in commercial buildings Industrial monitoring and control, with sensors and actuators in manufacturing, process control, farming, environmental, and other areas Automatic meter reading (AM
    1. Monitoring and control of lights, HVAC, and security in commercial buildings
    2. Industrial monitoring and control, with sensors and actuators in manufacturing, process control, farming, environmental, and other areas
    3. Automatic meter reading (AMR) with load management, enabling the utility industry to cut costs and save electrical and gas energy
    4. Oil and gas production, transmission, and exploration with supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) as well as other telemetry
    5. Home monitoring and control of lights, HVAC, security, and other systems
    6. Medical and health monitoring of patients, equipment, and facilities
    7. Military, with battlefield monitoring and robotic control
    8. Automotive, with sensor networks to report on the status of all systems
    9. Consumer, with remote control of toys, games, TV, stereo, DVD, stereo, and appliances
    10. Computer peripherals, such as the mouse, keyboard, game controllers, and printer
    11. Active RFID, with battery-powered tags for shipping, tracking, and storing larger items and asset management
    12. Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications between devices via the Internet
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