A prototype ZigBee to Bluetooth gateway for emerging body area network application

Abstract

The article presents the application of Zigbee to body area network. Bluetooth is an ubiquitous standards e.g. mobile phones and laptops having a drawbacks of high power consumption and underutilised data rate for BANs. Zigbee/IEEE 802.15.4 has low power consumption, low cost and high density of nodes per network, simple protocol, global implementation. Zigbee-Bluetooth gateways is need to developed to combine the ubiquity of Bluetooth with low power operability and low cost of Zigbee.