We compared Wi-Fine and Wi-Sun as following:
| Wi-Fine | Wi-SUN | |
| Definition | a new type of RF communication — Wi-Fine. Wireless Free Intelligent Network Home area network Field area network | Wi-SUN Alliance bring Smart Ubiquitous Networks to service providers by enabling interoperable, multi-service & secure wireless mesh networks. |
| Network scale | no theoretical upper limit，over 10,000 nodes | 1,000 nodes |
| Network construction time | No networking time, No route switching time. (Instantaneous networking， Instantaneous route switching) | Depending on the network size , a few minutes to an hour. Level 7 network construction takes more than 30 minutes, and level 255 requires a lot of time |
| Routing level | 255 levels | More than ten levels of theory, 7 ~ 8 levels of actual |
| Sleep mode | A variety of sleep, all nodes can sleep more, current <4mA when receiving, 0.3μA when sleeping | There is no sleep at present, and the end node can sleep in the future. Current 8mA when receiving, 2μA during sleep |
| Mobile transmission | Move arbitrarily, data continuously spread during the movement | Unmovable |
| Network topology | Multiple: two-way communication between nodes; two-way communication between nodes and gateways | Only nodes and gateways |
| Whole Net Collection | Collect thousands of nodes data within seconds, 100% meter reading on the whole network | Difficult to support |
| Safety | Each node has an immutable 6-byte customer ID and 6-byte global unique number UUID; each node is configured with a 3-byte network ID and 128 wireless channel codes. For dynamic encryption, the secret key uses a combination of the above three IDs and wireless channel coding. Use CRC-32 for message verification | RPL routing protocol IEEE 802.15.4G IETF IPV6 |
| Power Efficiency | drawing less than 3μA when resting, around 4mA when listening | drawing less than 2μA when resting, around 8mA when listening |
| OTA | All nodes in the whole network can perform OTA at the same time. Achieve all nodes OTA in seconds | 30 nodes OTA takes more than ten minutes, if the number increases, it cannot be realized |
| Economy | Highly cost-effective | Proprietary chip, certified, currently very expensive |
