Z-Wave Plus
Z-Wave Plus™ V2 is a new level within the Z-Wave certification and is designed to help consumers identify those products that support the “GEN7” Z-Wave hardware platform (also known as 700 Series or 7 .Generation Z-Wave chips). Z-Wave Plus™ V2 certified products have several advantages that increase ease of use and make Z-Wave solutions even quicker and easier to install and set up.
Since the certification of the first Z-Wave product in 2004, Z-Wave has established itself as the market leader for interoperable intelligent devices in home networking. With the introduction of the new Z-Wave 700 series, the Z-Wave ecosystem has been expanded with new features such as increased range, longer battery life, Over The Air Upgrades (OTA), and additional RF channels.
However, products with Z-Wave Plus™ V2 are fully backwards compatible with existing Z-Wave products!
For consumers, homeowners, integrators and service providers, the Z-Wave Plus™ V2 offers improvements and tremendous benefits in terms of shorter and simpler installations, richer device profiles, improved self-healing and longer battery life.
Advantages:
- Improved battery life up to 10 years
- Improved range up to 90 meters
- 250% more bandwidth
- Three RF channels for improved noise immunity and higher bandwidth
- New network-wide plug-and-play inclusion feature
- Improved communication through self-healing and fault tolerance with explorer frame functionality
- Encrypted procedure for over-the-air updates
- Improved product information capture for the product certification database