Review Article
A Survey of Communications and Networking Technologies for Energy Management in Buildings and Home Automation
Table 2
Summary of communications and networking technologies for home area networks.
| | Connectivity | Technology | Max speed per channel | Range | Adoption rate |
| | Wired | HomePlug (IEEE P1901) | 14–200 Mbps | 300 m | Medium | | Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) | 10–1000 Mbps | 100 m | Extremely high | | X10 (X10 standard) | 50–60 kbps | 300 m | Medium | | Insteon (X10 standard) | 1.2 kbps | 3000 m | Medium | | ITU G.hn (G.hn) | Up to 1 Gbps | — | Not widely |
| | Wireless | Z-Wave (Zensys, IEEE 802.15.4) | 40 kbps | 30 m | Widely | | WiFi (IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15.4) | 11–300 Mbps | 100 m | Extremely high | | ONE-NET (Open-source) | 38.4–230 kbps | 500 m (outdoors) | Not widely | | 60–70 m (indoors) | | 6LowPAN (IEEE 802.15.4) | 250 kbps (2.4 GHz) | 10–75 m | Medium | | 40 kbps (915 MHz) | | 20 kbps (868 MHz) | | ZigBee (IEEE 802.15.4) | 250 kbps (2.4 GHz) | 10–75 m | Widely | | 40 kbps (915 MHz) | | EnOcean (EnOcean standard) | 120 kbps | 30 m | Not widely |
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