The wireless communication technologies are rapidly spreading to many new areas, including the automation and the importance of the use of wireless technologies in the data acquisition, building control, monitoring systems and automation of manufacturing processes will grow. From the existing wireless standards seems very promising the new international standard ZigBee. The article describes early experience with the developing with the ZigBee. It is a low rate, low power wireless standard intended for low cost devices in automation, home controls and computer peripherals. The basics of the standard are explained and development of a ZigBee device hardware and software is described.