6LowPAN

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Özellikleri şöyle

6LowPAN Standard: RFC6282 Frequency: (adapted and used over a variety of other networking media including Bluetooth Smart (2.4GHz) or ZigBee or low-power RF (sub-1GHz) Range: N/A Data Rates: N/A

PAN
Kelimenin sonundaki PAN Personal Area Network anlamına gelir ve aslında "kişisel ağ" olarak değil de kişilerin yakınındaki ağ olarak anlaşılırsa bence daha uygun olur.

Gateway
6LowPAN ağındaki cihazların dış dünya ile haberleşebilmesi için bir gateway gerekir. Açıklaması şöyle

In any case, a 6LoWPAN enabled Sensor Network needs a Gateway to interact with an end user who might be using a standard 802.11 WLAN or a 802.3 Ethernet based network.

The Gateway needs to translate the 6LoWPAN enabled IPv6 addresses into addresses that standard networks can understand and communicate. For instance, if a node with 6LoWPAN enabled on it with Header Compression has Address ::1 there needs to be some defined way to know how to access this sensor node over a connected network. For that you need a gateway which does translation for you.