[Tinyos-devel] Re: [Tinyos Core WG] time sync interfaces

[David Gay]

On Dec 18, 2007 3:27 PM, Omprakash Gnawali <gnawali at gmail.com> wrote:
> In what cases is a few-millisecond time synchronization useful? An
> application that does occasional temperature and light sensing
> probably can just use the time of arrival at the base station as time.
> Phil, is this the class of application you were thinking of when you
> said 90% cases?

Anything which supports disconnected operation (e.g. by logging to
flash with occasional offload) can't rely on base station arrival
time. Of course, time synchronization might also be more challenging
in such an environment ;-)

David Gay