You will soon be able to control your home's lighting, temperature, security and many things else through your mobile phone. Pantech has successfully integrate the technology into its handset.

Pantech & Curitel announced Tuesday that it succeeded in adopting Zigbee, short distance wireless solution, to its handset for the first time in the world. ZigBee is one of the wireless data transmission solutions with home networking automation function.

The company said that the new phone, which combined TTS(text to speech) phone with ZigBee solution, is a futuristic ubiquitous phone that can turn on and off lights and PCs and control humidity, temperature as well as security at home and offices. 

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What is ZigBee?

ZigBee technology is well suited to a wide range of building automation, industrial, medical and residential control & monitoring applications. Essentially, applications that require interoperability and/or the RF performance characteristics of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard would benefit from a ZigBee solution. Examples include:

• Lighting controls
• Automatic Meter Reading
• Wireless smoke and CO detectors
• HVAC control
• Heating control
• Home security
• Environmental controls
• Blind, drapery and shade controls
• Medical sensing and monitoring
• Universal Remote Control to a Set-Top Box which includes Home Control
• Industrial and building automation

 You can visit ZigBee website at http://www.zigbee.org/en/