Link Quality Analysis from field deployments of ZigBee home automation mesh networks
Jiao Wang, Claudio Borean · 2013
This paper describes the results of the field testing of several installations of a ZigBee Home Automation Profile system based on hardware platforms supporting ZigBee radios. ZigBee performance are analyzed and discussed in the paper together with the software developed to perform the system performance evaluation. Based on the collected information, analysis, data processing, and comparison of different devices' performances are presented, including a review on how the different devices in the network use the mesh capabilities and the effect of different methods to calculate the link quality identifier (LQI) operated by different vendors. Specifically, the performances of two vendors have been analyzed and compared, as well as the statistics on the LQI in bad weather conditions.