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What is Z-Wave and why is it important for your smart home?

Getting technical for a moment, Z-Wave operates on the 800-900MHz radio frequency range, but the only reason that you might care about this is that, unlike other technologies which operates on 2.4GHz (a major frequency for Wi-Fi), Z-Wave doesn't 
really suffer from any major interference issues. 

Z-Wave devices all link up together to form a mesh network. There's usually one central hub that does connect to the internet but the devices themselves – sensors, bulbs and so on – don't have Wi-Fi at all, they just use Z-Wave connectivity to talk to the hub, and that connectivity doesn't have to be direct; the mesh network means signals can hop from device to device. The technical term is "source-routed mesh network topology". Stick that one in your locker if you want to impress your pals down the pub.

You can have up to 232 nodes on this mesh network – that's 232 devices to you. 
Described as "the safest, most secure ecosystem of smart devices on the global market", Z-Wave uses the AES-128 symmetric encryption. It's not totally hack-proof (what is?) but most smart home vulnerabilities are down to login procedures on a device's software, not their connectivity. 
This is where the important AmSmart cloud security comes in handy.