Experimental Research Regarding the Use of ZigBee Technology in Industrial Logistics Applications

Abstract

Industrial logistics is a very dynamic field, which involves moving equipment, flexibility, but also precise timing and accurate actions. Monitoring and control systems based on ZigBee can be implemented without causing obstructions or delays in the logistics flow. This paper presents different experiments using the industrial ZigBee equipment (coordinator, router, slave, bridge, sniffer) on different topologies and configurations.The purpose of these experiments is to find optimal topologies and settings for the ZigBee equipment, so that the implemented applications will be able to deal with the industrial environment, in order to acquire and transmit data as accurately as possible without losses of information and without interfering with the logistics flow. These experiments should be considered before implementing a ZigBee application in an industrial environment.