Aeotec Z-Stick Gen5+ smart home transmitter Wireless Wired

<b>Your gateway to building your own Z-Wave gateway.</b><br>Next generation smart home doesn’t have to be expensive – with a few key devices you can connect and automate electronics. Step by step. Room by room. At your own pace, in your own time, and within your own budget.<br><br><b>New Model: Z-Stick Gen5+</b><br>Usually the most expensive part of any smart home is its gateway – that’s the software-powered hub that binds all your connected devices together in order to control and automate them. With Aeotec’s Z-Stick Gen5+ your gateway no longer needs to be expensive. Nor does it need to be a security or privacy risk. Z-Stick Gen5+ lets you build your own, locally hosted gateway. A gateway that is cloud free and that offers the features and security that are just right for you and your individual vision.<br><br>Z-Stick Gen5+ has long been the Z-Wave community’s USB tool for building a gateway hub. It’s a best-seller because of its compatibility, its quality, and its functionalities. This new, 2020, plus-model brings a whole new array of compatibility and functionality to a USB stick already powering over 100,000 smart homes.<br><br><b>Raspberry Pi 4</b><br>New Pi from Raspberry, new Z-Stick from Aeotec. As it was built upon an older Z-Wave stack, the non-plus model of Z-Stick Gen5+ isn’t compatible with Raspberry 4. But Z-Stick Gen5+ is. That opens up your home automation software to Raspberry’s new architecture, including 8GB of RAM and an ARM v8 1.5GHz CPU.<br><br><b>S2 security</b><br>New systems, new challenges. The increase in popularity of automation systems means that they now face greater security challenges as more people try to exploit weaknesses in archaic technology. Z-Stick Gen5+ future-proofs against such weaknesses by offering Z-Wave S2 security natively, UL 1023 compliance, and ECDH key exchange natively.<br><br><b>SmartStart</b><br>Simpler device setup has finally come to Z-Wave with SmartStart. This new QR code based method allows you to pair a Z-Wave device with your automation system simply by scanning its QR code. Even when not fully installed, you’ll be able to connect devices through Z-Stick Gen5+ to your Z-Wave software, provided that software offers QR-based pairing.<br><br><b>Z-Wave Plus</b><br>So that it can offer both Security 2 and SmartStart, Z-Stick Gen5+ has been engineered upon both the latest versions of Z-Wave Plus and Z-Wave Gen5. That makes it compatible with dozes of Z-Wave products from Aeotec and thousands of Z-Wave devices from 3rd party manufacturers.<br><br><b>Depend on Z-Wave</b><br>The Z-Wave ecosystem is huge. There are over 3,000 different certified products available from a range of makers, including a huge range of control and automation products made by Aeotec. And Z-Stick Gen5+ doesn’t just offer Z-Wave, it offers the best version of it. <br><br>Z-Stick Gen5+ is powered by Z-Wave Plus and Aeotec’s exclusive Gen5 stack, meaning it offers much more than just SmartStart and S2 Security.<br><br><b>67% greater wireless range</b><br>Wirelessly optimized to be superior to the original Z-Stick, Z-Stick Gen5+ can now communicate over a distance of up to 150 metres / 492 feet in open spaces.<br><br><b>250% more bandwidth</b><br>New automations require greater wireless bandwidth. This Gen5+ model of Z-Stick has a 250% greater communication throughput.<br><br><b>Powers firmware updates</b><br>There for you when your devices need updating, Z-Stick Gen5+ contains all the hardware needed to power over-the-air, Z-Wave firmware updates<br><br><b>AES-128 bit encrypted</b><br>Built with both Z-Wave S0 and S2 security stacks, Z-Stick Gen5+’s communication is protected by AES-128 bit encryption and ECDH key exchange<br><br><b>100 mAh lithium battery</b><br>For ease-of-installation and always-online-operation, Z-Stick Gen5+ stays online thanks to its inbuilt<br>100 mAh rechargeable<br>lithium battery.<br><br><b>Local hosting</b><br>If it isn’t locally hosted, your automation system’s security and privacy could be at risk. Take control of both by hosting your automation software locally on hardware that you control.<br><br><b>15 days battery life</b><br>With its backup battery making it portable, Z-Stick Gen5+ can be physically moved around premises and connected to each device at the point of installation.<br><br><b>Cloud free</b><br>If the cloud goes down, should your automation system? It’s not so smart when things don’t work. While most Z-Wave gateways depend on the cloud, Z-Stick Gen5+ lets you build your own to avoid downtime and a broken smart home.Aeotec Z-Stick Gen5+. Interface: Wired, Connectivity technology: Wireless, Wireless technology: Z-Wave. Power source: USB, Battery technology: Lithium, Operating voltage: 5.25 V. Width: 28.5 mm, Depth: 88 mm, Height: 10 mm