What is an integrated Zigbee smart home hub?

If you use several smart home devices from one or different manufacturers, then you usually need a hub. This is available in different versions, for example, as an integrated Zigbee. This allows you to manage the devices centrally.

This is an integrated Zigbee Smart Home Hub

To connect several smart home devices with each other and then manage them centrally, you need a corresponding hub. For this to be possible, it is necessary that the devices use the same wireless standard. In this case, it is Zigbee, which is used by Amazon Echos. In addition to hubs that you have to buy separately, there are also devices with an integrated hub.

1. An integrated hub is a device that both provides a voice assistant and can be used as a hub.
2. This includes, for example, the Amazon Echo Plus speaker. This has the voice assistant Alexa, with which you can control devices by voice command.
3. At the same time, however, you can also use the device as a hub. So it is possible to connect other smart home devices to the speaker and then manage them via the app. Da dieser zudem den Zigbee-Standard unterstützt, handelt es sich dabei um einen Zigbee Smart Home Lautsprecher mit integriertem Hub.
4. Wenn Sie Geräte von anderen Herstellern verbinden möchten, kann es jedoch sein, dass Sie eine separate Bridge benötigen, um alle Funktionen nutzen zu können.