WHAN: Wireless Home Area Network

The caracteristics of the Wireless Home Area Network are the following: This kind of network is thus well optimised to interconnect multiple devices within a range of about 30m, that don't need to send a lot of informations but need a long battery life. This is specially the case for smart home devices or domotics.
 * Low consumption technology
 * Low data rate (<100 kbps)
 * Can interconnect many devices at the same time
 * Range from 30m to 100m
 * Use sub-GHz band
 * Can use multihop

In this category, we can find Z-wave, KNX and EnOcean networks, which have all little different features.