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I am developing a wireless finger print based attendance management system to be deployed in my university(National university of sciences and technology Pakistan). I want to use "ETRX357USB+8M ZigBee Wireless Mesh Networking USB Stick" in my project.

Question: how can i interface MSP430 controller of c5515 finger development kit with ETRX357USB zigbee in order to transmit the data to my server ?

There is a USB port on the finger developing kit(FDK) i am using (Texas instruments C5515) so i have query whether it can host the USB stick Zigbee or not, as hosting a USB device requires driver to be installed on the hosting machine(in my case C5515).

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The Telegesis USB sticks all use a Silicon Laboratories Serial-to-USB chip. When you connect them to a PC (or Mac/Linux), you have to install the drivers and the device will show up as a COM port. If the MSP430 is running Linux, you may be in luck, but otherwise I don't know that this product will fit your use case.

You might look at their Zigbee Module which would provide you with UART access, or perhaps one of the Digi XBee devices.

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