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A Survey on the ZigBee Protocol, It’s Security in Internet of Things (IoT) and Comparison of ZigBee with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

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In today’s era, Internet of Things (IoT) is playing the major role, as people are becoming more dependent on smart devices. Nowadays, the concept of smart homes, smart cities, and smart health care are becoming necessary. With the help of smart health care, people living in the remote area will get the immediate assistance from the doctors, also the smart devices like smart bands, fit bit, or trackers will help to monitor the heart rate, blood pressure, etc. So, to implement these things, IoT requires some protocols; in this paper, we are going to study about a very important protocol of IoT which is ZigBee, it is a low power consuming wireless protocol. It is helpful in implementing the concept of smart city, smart homes, etc. In this paper, we have discussed about the ZigBee stack, its security, and its comparison with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, so that a conclusion can be drawn as which protocol is most suited for IoT applications.

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Gupta, M., Singh, S. (2021). A Survey on the ZigBee Protocol, It’s Security in Internet of Things (IoT) and Comparison of ZigBee with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. In: Gao, XZ., Kumar, R., Srivastava, S., Soni, B.P. (eds) Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4604-8_38

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