Arduino radio frequency rf shields and accessories arduino a000021 the xbee shield allows an arduino board to communicate wirelessly using zigbee it is based on the xbee module from maxstream the module can communicate up to 100 feet indoors or 300 feet outdoors with line of sight it can be used as a serialusb replacement or you can put it into a command mode and configure it for a variety of broadcast and mesh networking options the shields breaks out each of the xbees pins to a th