Advantages and disadvantages of zigbee

There are some important advantages of zigbee which are given below,

• The zigbee has flexible network structure.
• It has a very long battery life.
• It is low power consumption.
• It is easy to install.
• It can be easily implemented.
• It supports large number of nodes i.e. 6500 nodes approximately.
• It has a very low cost.
• It is more reliable and self healing.
• Setting up the network is very simple and easy.

There are some disadvantages of zigbee which are given below,

• It is so highly risky to be used for official private information.
• The zigbee has low transmission rate.
• Replacement with zigbee compliant appliances can be costly.
• It does not have many end devices available yet.
• It cannot be used as outdoor wireless communication system due to it has short coverage limited.
• It is not secure like wi fi based secured system.