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| | Automation World Article: ZigBee Alliance Issues First ZigBee-compliant Platform Certificates (Departments) |
 | | The ZigBee Alliance, an association of companies working to enable wirelessly networked monitoring and control products based on an open global standard, announced on April 11 four ZigBee-compliant platforms from Chipcon, with U.S. offices in Cupertino, Calif., CompXs, of Santa Clara, Calif., Ember Corp., based in Boston, and Freescale Semiconductor Inc., of Austin, Texas. |
 | | The Alliance’s testing approach is designed to ensure that products based on ZigBee-compliant platforms from different vendors will be able to form into a single, cohesive wireless ZigBee network capable of passing data for all applications on the network. |
 | | For at least the first year, the ZigBee Alliance will require members to test their end product devices at one of the two test houses, and then participate in an Alliance-sponsored interoperability testing event to confirm interoperability with other like products in a ZigBee network. |
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