“…A similar perspective was presented in, which synthesized the drawbacks of ZigBee (ie, unavailability of time scheduling on MAC, poor network scalability, inefficient energy management, and inability to inter‐operate with devices from other vendors) and highlighted the improvements gradually introduced by WirelessHART (ie, channel hopping, which positively impacts the multipath propagation problem, and TDMA scheduling with fixed time‐slots), ISA‐100.11a (ability to inter‐operate with devices from different vendors, transmit power control, variable time‐slots), and IEEE 802.15.4e/6LoWPAN (ie, time‐slotted channel hopping, ability to integrate the wireless sensor network [WSN] to any network, and Internet of Things application readiness because of IPv6 mapping capability).…”