Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Origin of ZigBee???

Articles published by technology news organizations such as EDN and Telecommunications Online claim that the term "ZigBee" originates from the zig-zag waggle dance honeybees use to share critical information, such as the location, distance, and direction of a newly discovered food source, with fellow hive members. ZigBee device manufacturer Meshnetics refers to this communication system as the "ZigBee Principle". However, no such term exists in apiology, the scientific study of honeybees. Robert Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet and a contributor on the initial development of Zigbee, confirmed to a journalist in 2004 that the name was initially meaningless and had been chosen from a long list on the basis that it had no trademark liabilities.

By wikipedia.org

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