GreenPeak Technologies today announces the GP690, adding ZigBee PRO to its product portfolio and offering full support for its Open Smart Home Framework, integrating all three ZigBee networking variants Green Power, RF4CE and PRO into a single overall architecture defining the “second wireless network for the home”.

GreenPeak Technologies today announced its new GP410 chip offering the new ZigBee PRO Green Power feature for low cost energy harvesting and ultra-long battery life ZigBee applications for the Smart Home. The GP410 IEEE 802.15.4 ZigBee PRO Green Power controller is a fully integrated system-on-chip solution for power harvesting end nodes for light switches, smart home devices, or for applications designed to run on a single battery for many years...

GreenPeak Technologies today announced its support for the ZigBee PRO Green Power feature, which adds support for energy harvesting and battery-free applications as part of the ZigBee 2012 standard. GreenPeak also announces achieving ZigBee Certified and Golden Unit status for its Green Power product.

GreenPeak Technologies has revealed today its support for the ZigBee Input Device standard, which adds specific features to the ZigBee RF4CE specification for mice, keyboards, touchpads, wands, game controllers and other input devices. GreenPeak has achieved Golden Unit status for its ZigBee Input Device stack software and has also made its development platform available to its customers to accelerate integration and product design.

The new Smart Home is much more than just the connected home – it is about a truly smart home that combines the best of the connected home, the new Internet of Things, as well as the Internet of Tiny Things, with the marketing and business platform provided by the world’s leading entertainment and service providers. This includes the classic cable TV operators, satellite TV providers as well as those companies that previously offered just int...

More applications for smart phones are becoming available every day making the smart phone a center piece of communication for the future smart, connected home. Some of these applications intend to “check and control things at home”, like temperature control (changing the setting of the thermostat), security (making sure that doors are locked) or energy management (like lighting controls).

GreenPeak has today revealed the release of the new GP710, a dual-protocol ZigBee communications controller with simultaneous support for ZigBee RF4CE and ZigBee IP/ZigBee PRO protocols. The GP710 communication controller is targeted for set-top boxes, gateways and Smart Home controllers and designed for supporting simultaneously ZigBee RF4CE applications – such as remote controls – as well as ZigBee IP or ZigBee PRO Smart Home applications s...

GreenPeak Technologies has announced it is moving its Belgium offices to a new, larger location. As a result of GreenPeak’s market success supplying chips and components for the new Smart Home – the Cable Industry’s “Fifth Play”, the Belgium office has found a new home to provide working space for its expanding team of engineers, marketing and logistics staff.

GreenPeak has today revealed that it is expanding its product portfolio and customer target base. GreenPeak ZigBee chips are already integrated into leading cable industry set-top boxes to enable power saving and long range RF based connections for remote controls.

GreenPeak Technologies today reveals the general availability of its GP510 communication controller chip, supporting all communication between ZigBee RF4CE enabled devices and the set-top box or gateway. The GP510 is GreenPeak’s answer to the increasing market demand for making the set-top box the ZigBee RF4CE hub for the home.

Cees Links, Marketing Chair in the ZigBee Alliance and the CEO of GreenPeak Technologies will be speaking at the upcoming Internet of Things Conference to take place June 6, 2012 at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, The Netherlands

GreenPeak Technologies today announced that Comcast Cable Communications has selected GreenPeak’s controller chips in conjunction with ZigBee RF4CE technology for use in television remote controls for its Xfinity TV service. The companies also are in the process of standardizing an MSO profile protocol optimized for service operators’ needs which will be open for all operators and CE companies to adopt.

GreenPeak Technologies today announced the launch of the new GP570 chip that will allow the development of low cost motion-enabled remote controls, addressing the growing demand for smarter and intuitive navigation of interactive entertainment services offered by operators.

GreenPeak Technologies, announced that its radio communication controller chip was assessed by the European Space Center, ESA/ESTEC, for use in aerospace applications and was endorsed for its superior RF performance, ultra-low power requirement and excellent interference robustness.

GreenPeak makes it easy for CE manufacturers and MSOs to introduce low cost and robust RF4CE remote control solutions. With the launch of three new chips, GreenPeak allows the development of robust and low cost ZigBee RF4CE remote control applications for TV’s and set-top boxes, addressing an overall one billion unit annual market.

GreenPeak Technologies today revealed that many of world's leading cable TV and satellite TV services are in the process of rolling out new interactive features and home entertainment capabilities, empowered by ZigBee Remote Control technology - the new technology that enables service providers to communicate with their home entertainment customers and makes using a set-top box much more enjoyable.

GreenPeak Technologies, a leading fabless semiconductor company, today announced the first reference design for an RF4CE USB stick for the integration of RF4CE technology in PC’s and home entertainment applications like set-top boxes, TV’s and media players.

RF4CE reference design for plug-and-play USB stick allows cost-efficent RF4CE implementation