Extend your ZigBee PAN from the top flor to the basement, or around the world—anwhere the Internet goes.

A mesh network will provide connectivity in most environments, but what if some of your nodes are out of range, separated by structural concrete, across the street, or halfway across the continent?

You can add routing nodes, but power for line-powered routers might not be available at the optimum location. They will only offer a low-latency connection to the nearest nodes in a lobe; distant nodes must hop their messages across the width of the PAN. And if it takes more than a few routers to span the gap, accumulating latency and node costs can quickly make this approach impractical.

Our solution takes advantage of the Ethernet connectivity that already exists in many building environments. Install a Q52 anywhere in each lobe of the PAN and link them over a TCP/IP connection. Now it's one fast hop between the Q52s regardless of their physical separation.

Need a coordinator for your PAN? Just check a box in the Q52s web-based management interface and you have a reliable coordinator with non-volatile storage of your PAN's configuration.

Installation of the Q52 is quick and easy with Gecko, a Windows application for discovering and configuring Exegin devices on your network. Once your Q52 is configured, you can manage it using its web and telnet servers.