[Tinyos Core WG] Meeting: 10/17

[David Gay]

On 10/17/07, Jan Beutel <j.beutel at ieee.org> wrote:
> Sentilla Point currently runs on Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) MSP430
> microprocessors, which are miniature computers (about the size of a
> dime) and engineered for very low power consumption, allowing them to be
> deployed at massive scale throughout industry applications.

Thinking a little, there's no real major obstacle in writing
not-too-complex application-level Java code on a mote, especially if
you're ok with minor restrictions, e.g., on dynamic code loading,
reflection. You could probably even allow those with extra effort...
Reference point: Mate has a Scheme implementation available, and it's
not even particularly well optimised.

It's implementing the comm stacks, routing, sensing, etc, etc, in Java
that seems like a less good idea.

David