DAVIS, CA and AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS--(Marketwired - June 09, 2016) -

News Highlights:

• JupiterMesh is the robust, low-power industrial IoT wireless mesh network with flexible data rates that enables neighborhood and field area communications for utilities and municipalities deploying intelligent grid and smart city solutions. Announced at the June 2016 ZigBee Alliance members meeting, JupiterMesh is the world-wide trademarked brand for the communications solution.

• The JupiterMesh technical profile specification is built on open IETF and IEEE standards and includes advanced technologies such as IPv6, frequency hopping, multi-band operation, authentication, encryption, and key management to drive industry realization of interoperable multi-vendor implementations that scale and are secure and easy to manage.

• A successful JupiterMesh specification verification and interoperability event was held at Powertech Labs Inc. (a subsidiary of BC Hydro), with engaged participation from smart grid leaders; Itron, Landis+Gyr and Trilliant, embedded technology specialists; Exegin and Vencore Labs (a.k.a., Applied Communication Sciences (ACS)), and semiconductor vendors; Analog Devices, Atmel (a subsidiary of Microchip Technology) and Texas Instruments.

Announced today at the ZigBee Alliance members' meeting, JupiterMesh is the robust, low-power industrial IoT wireless mesh network with flexible data rates that enables neighborhood and field area communications for utilities and municipalities deploying intelligent grid and smart city solutions. JupiterMesh has been created within the proven stakeholder consensus standards development process of the ZigBee Alliance.

JupiterMesh provides a complete solution package, including:

• Technical profile specification, detailing requirements from existing open standards for OSI Layers 1 through 4, including:

  • IEEE 802.15.4e & IEEE 802.15.4g for Media Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layers (PHY) including CSMA or TSCH modes of operation to ensure optimum performance for different use cases;

  • IETF network and application protocols such as; IPv6, 6LoWPAN, UDP, TCP, RPL, CoAP, and others with multicast feature to ensure Internet style machine-to-machine behavior over mesh networks;

  • ETF security protocols such as; PANA, EAP-TLS and HIP-DEX for network access authentication and key distribution, and AES-128-CCM-based message authentication and encryption;

  • Sub-1 Gigahertz and 2.4 GHz ISM bands as well as multiple modulation techniques (FSK, O-QPSK, OFDM) to ensure global regulatory compliance and acceptance.

• Specification validation, compliance testing, interoperability verification, certification programs, and a global network of test houses.

• Brand identity and commercial collateral for stakeholder promotion.