IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks

6LoWPAN stands for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks. It is an open standard defined in RFC 6282 by the Internet engineering task force (IETF). The key feature of 6LoWPAN that makes it suitable for IoT communication is that though it was originally designed to support IEEE 802.15.4 low-power wireless networks in the 2.4-GHz band, it now supports a wide range of networking media such as sub-1 GHz low-power RF, Bluetooth smart, power line control (PLC), and low-power Wi-Fi.