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IKEA moves to Thread (and away from Zigbee) (www.theverge.com)

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[–] spitfire@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

There are also performance implications (a Zigbee coordinator can easily handle 100 devices, while many routers would struggle with that amount of clients), power saving (especially for battery powered sensors) - some Zigbee sensors can last years on a single coin cell battery.