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WiFi Xbees announced!

Posted by Chris Anderson on July 30, 2011 at 8:00pm

3689417818?profile=originalThis is cool! Now to think about what we might do with it.

Digi International (NASDAQ: DGII) today introduced the XBee® Wi-Fi, an embedded module that enables industry leading low power, serial-to-Wi-Fi networking in the popular XBee form factor.  Because of the XBee’s common footprint and application programming interface (API), customers can now create a single board design for wireless products that supports 802.15.4, ZigBee, ZigBee Smart Energy, 2.4 GHz, 900 and 868 MHz, Wi-Fi and proprietary DigiMesh protocols.  

“XBee modules offer developers tremendous flexibility and are extremely easy to use,” said Larry Kraft, senior vice president of global sales and marketing, Digi International.  “By adding a low-power Wi-Fi module to the XBee product family we give customers the fastest and most flexible way to get Wi-Fi up and running on their systems.”

Ideal for energy management, wireless sensor networks and intelligent asset management, the XBee Wi-Fi offers 802.11 b/g/n networking and flexible SPI and UART serial interfaces. Because the module includes the 802.11 b/g/n physical layer, baseband MAC and TCP/IP stack, developers can add Wi-Fi to their products simply by connecting to the XBee Wi-Fi’s serial port.  The XBee Wi-Fi is fully tested at manufacture and comes with modular certification for the U.S., E.U., Canada and a number of other countries, further reducing the time to market, development expense and design complexity.

 

Via Adafruit

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  • Moderator
    Sgt Ric November 29, 2012 at 11:35am

    Follow the more up-to-date threads at wifi-xbees forums

  • Thomas Finan November 29, 2012 at 11:04am
    Im curious as to whether anyone has worked on this, or if it has been covered in another post that i havent found.

    Im more curious about wifi with ardupilot, primarily in order to create a "diy" Ys-x6. The idea of a "follow-me" feature is of interest to me. Ive seen some postings on this, but it seems to have died.

    Thanks
    http://found.Im/
  • MattEvans16 October 3, 2011 at 10:53pm

    So has anyone used one yet? I just bought two... Below are the best two datasheets I could find, and I'm still confused at the "modes".  I hope I will be able to write code to POST to a webserver.

     

    http://ftp1.digi.com/support/documentation/90002124_C.pdf

    http://ftp1.digi.com/support/documentation/90002133_a.pdf

     

  • Björn Geir Leifsson August 9, 2011 at 3:14am
    @Artem. How can that be? Are you telling us that the small doppler effect of a Tx/Rx at more than walking pace will seriously affect the signal?
  • Art August 8, 2011 at 5:31am

    Don't get all excited just yet.  802.11 doesn't work for platforms which move faster than a walking speed.  That's the limitation of the protocol.

  • Developer
    John Arne Birkeland July 31, 2011 at 2:55pm

    Looking at the specs XBeeWiFI it supports up to 3.5mbit using SPI. So it should be able to transfer at least SD digital video. And since this is standard WiFi there are plenty of cheap signal boosters available for extending the range.

  • Jack Crossfire July 31, 2011 at 1:27pm

    Only $25 more than the WiFly.

  • Developer
    Sandro Benigno July 31, 2011 at 10:11am

    Now I just want to know if it has the "Ad hoc" mode.
    It would be really fine as a GCS bridge to cellphones and tablets.

  • Ritchie July 31, 2011 at 8:42am
    Yet another fun thing to try.
  • 3D Robotics
    Chris Anderson July 31, 2011 at 7:33am
    Bjorn: that sounds cool. We've got a bunch of wireless projects in the pipeline already, so we're going to focus on finishing them first. But I can certainly see the appeal of WiFi for shorter range stuff.
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