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 | 6LoWPAN | Bluetooth | DASH7 | EnOcean | Weightless-N | SigFox | Wi-Fi | Wireless KNX | Wireless M-BUS | Z-Wave | Zigbee |
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| Frequencies | 2.4GHz, 915Mhz (Americas), 868Mhz (Europe) | 2.4GHz | 433 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) |
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| Broadcast range | 100 m | 2 km | 30 m to 300m | 5 km | 250 m | 30 m | 100 m | ||||
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| Ad hoc networking capabilities | yes | ||||||||||
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| Security | AES-128 | AES-128 or ARC4 | WPA2 | AES-128 | |||||||
| interoperability | yes; already had an interoperability test event | ||||||||||
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| Open / Closed / Proprietary standard | Open | ISO/IEC 18000-7 open standard | ISO/IEC 14543-3-10 | Open | Proprietary | ISO/IEC 14543-3 open standard European Standard (CENELEC EN50090 and CEN EN 13321-1 and 13321-2) | EN 13757-4 | ||||
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| Website | ietf.org/... | bluetooth.com | dash7.org | enocean.com/... | weightless.org/... | sigfox.com | knx.org | m-bus.com | z-wave.com | zigbee.org | |
| Wikipedia | wikipedia.org/... | wikipedia.org/... | wikipedia.org/... | wikipedia.org/... | wikipedia.org/... | wikipedia.org/... | wikipedia.org/... | wikipedia.org/... | wikipedia.org/... | wikipedia.org/... |
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