ZigBee vs Z-Wave vs Wi-Fi vs Thread vs Bluetooth vs Matter (CHIP)

ZigBee vs Z-Wave vs Wi-Fi vs Thread vs Bluetooth vs Matter (CHIP)

These wireless technologies are confusing and hard to understand if you're just starting out your smart home, or even if you're just trying to purchase a new device for your smart home or home automation system.

No matter what you're doing, today's smart home technology can be difficult to navigate without some basic information about these wireless communication protocols and standards.

So today I'll walk you through everything from the reliability of Zigbee, Z-Wave, Wi-Fi, Thread, Bluetooth, and the new Matter standard (formerly CHIP or CHOIP), to the speed of these networks, the size of the networks you can achieve (and how that affects you), and many other aspects about all of these #smarthome #technologies that you'll need to understand in order to build a reliable, exciting, and powerful smart home.

Links to help with today's video:
Our video about CHIP and Matter affecting your home - https://youtu.be/FxXL9scIX_Y
Our videos about Zigbee and WiFi interference and coexistence - https://youtu.be/h-CUnFNvlmc and https://youtu.be/x4PDfoSq9Y0
Our friend Eric at @ModernDayTech who produced this great video about the Homepod Mini and Thread - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14qUc9p4Fcg
Our video about getting easy and reliable Wi-Fi in your home so you don't have constant device drops - https://youtu.be/avwtJYBiiUM

Time codes for today's video:
00:00 - What is Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread, WiFi, Bluetooth, and CHIP?
2:54 - A Comparison of Speeds
7:13 - Latency Matters More
12:05 - Mesh Networks in Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread, WiFi, Bluetooth, and CHIP Networks
13:26 - Frequency of Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread, WiFi, Bluetooth, and CHIP
17:54 - Distance of Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread, WiFi, Bluetooth, and CHIP
21:21 - The Size of Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread, WiFi, Bluetooth, and CHIP networks
25:51 - Power use of Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread, WiFi, Bluetooth, and CHIP
27:28 - Buying Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread, WiFi, Bluetooth, and CHIP devices in your country
34:25 - The Prices of Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread, Bluetooth, and WiFi devices
35:17 - Are Zigbee, Z-Wave, WiFi, Thread, Bluetooth, and CHIP devices reliable?
43:41 - Designing Your Smart Home in 2021 and 2022

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