What are ZigBee gateway and DECT FRITZ!Smart Gateway
The range of home appliances and automation available on the market under the Smart Home sign is growing. There are more smart bulbs and light fixtures, controllable sockets and sensors available. Is it possible to integrate into one system devices from different manufacturers using different radio technologies? Yes, but you need the FRITZ Smart Home Gateway.
Smart Home Gateway
Various smart home automation manufacturers choose a variety of commercially available radio technologies with which to integrate individual devices into smart smartHome wireless systems. Among the most popular are Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Z-Wave and DECT, Each has its own advantages and disadvantages. For example, the first three technologies mentioned use the 2.4 GHz band, which is heavily congested and full of interference, including from household appliances such as microwave ovens.
An interesting alternative would be Z-Wave technology, which uses a relatively little-used band below 1 GHz, but here we run into a legal problem, as not all countries have this range available for license-free civilian applications.
AVM's smart home solutions use DECT technology, proven in local wireless telephony, which operates in the 1900 MHz band, giving it a sizable range, easy penetration of obstacles and immunity to interference.
ZigBee gateway
In view of the popularity of ZigBee-based solutions and with the aim of enabling the use of a wide range of home automation products from other manufacturers in a system based on the FRITZ router!Box, a gateway - the FRITZ Smart Home Gateway - has been introduced to the market. FRITZ Gateway supports both DECT and ZigBee technology, and to the FRITZ router!Box can be connected via LAN cable or wirelessly over Wi-Fi. Smart Gateway from FRITZ!, like other ZigBee gateways, it operates in the 2.4 GHz band.
FRITZ Gateway, a ZigBee-enabled gateway, allows you to integrate FRITZ! Smart Home devices from other manufacturers: LED light bulbs, temperature sensors, motion sensors, water leak sensors, multifunctional control buttons, smart sockets and window blinds. The list of compatible devices that the ZigBee Smart Home network gateway currently supports is available on the AVM website at https://en.avm.de/service/zigbee/
ZigBee 3.0 gateway and connected through it to the FRITZ system! Smart Home devices are visible in the router configurator and can be used in designing Smart Home templates and routines. Full integration into the friendly FRITZ environment! allows you to control the system with a customizable FRITZ button!DECT 440, a FRITZ DECT telephone!Fon and the free FRITZ app!App Smart Home, available for Android and iOS platforms.
FRITZ!Smart Gateway supports Matter's open platform, making the ZigBee network gateway truly a window into a world of entirely new applications, such as voice control in conjunction with Alexa, Siri or Hey Google, in which previously unnetworked ZigBee-based devices can now be used. With this additional integration, you can voice-control FRITZ thermostats!DECT 301/302 or switch FRITZ smart outlets!DECT 200/210 using a Matter-compatible motion sensor.
As befits a FRITZ solution! fRITZ integration!Smart Gateway as a bridge to Matter platform is not complicated and requires a few clicks.
Universal ZigBee gateway with FRITZ mark! fully deserves this name also because it further increases the number of DECT devices that can be logged into the system.
Compatible with ZigBee 3.0, the gateway also supports AES encryption, securing the transmission from unauthorized access and taking control of the home automation system. As an additional safeguard, the heart of the Smart Home system is the FRITZ router!Box, which operates in a stand-alone, so it is independent of external servers and cloud services - all mechanisms and automation of Smart Home will work even in case of failure of Internet connection.
