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Communications options for Internet of Things deployments

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Compare 433MHz vs 868MHz vs 916MHz vs Zigbee vs Z-Wave vs 6LowPan vs LONworks vs Powerline vs Homeplug vs Bluetooth vs EnOcean vs ONE-NET vs X10 vs GPRS vs GSM vs 3G vs 4G LTE vs Wi-fi vs Bluetooth vs NFC vs DASH7 vs Wireless KNX

Short name
6LoWPANBluetoothDASH7EnOceanWeightless-NSigFoxWi-FiWireless KNXWireless M-BUSZ-WaveZigbee
Technical details
Frequencies2.4GHz,
915Mhz (Americas),
868Mhz (Europe)
2.4GHz433 MHz (Europe)868MHz (Europe)
315 / 902 MHz (Americas)
868Mhz (Europe)
915Mhz (Americas)
868Mhz (Europe)
915Mhz (Americas)
2.4GHz,
5GHz 802.11n
868Mhz (Europe)169 MHz (Europe),
433 MHz (Europe),
868Mhz(Europe)
908.42MHz ISM band (United States),
868.42MHz SRD Band (Europe),
919.82MHz (Hong Kong),
921.42MHz (Australian/New Zealand)
2.4GHz,
915Mhz (Americas),
868Mhz (Europe)
Latency
Broadcast range100 m2 km30 m to 300m5 km250 m30 m100 m
Available sensor ranges
Available actuator range
Ad hoc networking capabilitiesyes
Battery Life
SecurityAES-128AES-128 or ARC4WPA2AES-128
interoperabilityyes; already had an interoperability test event
Other details
Open / Closed / Proprietary standardOpenISO/IEC 18000-7 open standardISO/IEC 14543-3-10OpenProprietaryISO/IEC 14543-3 open standard
European Standard (CENELEC EN50090 and CEN EN 13321-1 and 13321-2)
EN 13757-4
Geographic adoption
Known technical issues
Pricing
Board costs (USD)
Licensing costs (USD)
Resources
Websiteietf.org/...bluetooth.comdash7.orgenocean.com/...weightless.org/...sigfox.comknx.orgm-bus.comz-wave.comzigbee.org
Wikipediawikipedia.org/...wikipedia.org/...wikipedia.org/...wikipedia.org/...wikipedia.org/...wikipedia.org/...wikipedia.org/...wikipedia.org/...wikipedia.org/...wikipedia.org/...
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Compare 433MHz vs 868MHz vs 916MHz vs Zigbee vs Z-Wave vs 6LowPan vs LONworks vs Powerline vs Homeplug vs Bluetooth vs EnOcean vs ONE-NET vs X10 vs GPRS vs GSM vs 3G vs 4G LTE vs Wi-fi vs Bluetooth vs NFC vs DASH7 vs Wireless KNX
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Apr. 20th 2015 2:59:11 PM
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  • ronald_higgins on Mar. 14th 2023 5:25:52 PM

    I want to thank the author for this comparison, as it gives insight and understanding of the different communication options available for IoT deployments and the factors to consider when making a choice. But if you want to implement the Internet of Things at a large enterprise level, you might want to turn to professionals with extensive experience in this area tech-stack.com/...