Overview
The client is a US-based home automation company providing smart apartment solution. Seeking to broaden the reach of their existing Z-Wave-based home automation solution, they aimed to incorporate support for Silicon Labs' Zigbee dongle. ACL Digital developed gateway firmware application to support silicon labs zigbee USB dongle.
Challenges
Lack of APIs interface hub & zigbee interconnect
Lack of Linux based Zigbee application in the NCP mode
Limited support for clusters in NCP application
Benefits
- Faster time to market with product launch of newer version in less than 3 months
- Upgraded and upsell client’s existing gateway with add-on Zigbee connectivity
