ZigBee A wireless communications standard, which has longer range than bluetooth but lower power consumption than WiFi. Source: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blog/show?id=705844%3ABlogPost%3A42428 ZigBee is a low-cost, low-power, wireless mesh networking standard. First, the low cost allows the technology to be widely deployed in wireless control and monitoring applications. Second, the low power-usage allows longer life