[Tinyos-help] A Note from Sentilla

[Sarah Mount]

On 18/10/2007, Joe Polastre <joe at polastre.com> wrote:

> Why Java?  There's a lot of reasons.  Most students are now learning
> Java at their universities rather than C or C++.

This is changing fast btw :)
...

> About our hardware products:  Please note that Sentilla is not going
> to completely stop making motes, and we are not exiting the market --
> rather we are providing an alternative based on open standards and
> familiar interfaces.  We're moving the market for pervasive computing
> forward by making the software easy and familiar.  As of February 1,
> 2008, all of our new motes will now come with Sentilla Point -- our
> Java runtime, application frameworks, networking, and APIs --
> pre-loaded.    As such, we're excited that everyone in this community
> will have the ability to use Java software to build applications. If
> you'd like to get a "bare" mote with only TinyOS support, those are
> still available too until January 31, 2008. All of Sentilla's new
> products that are coming in 2008 are backwards compatible with Tmote
> Sky and Tmote Mini, so you can remove Sentilla Point and load TinyOS
> if you choose.

Will is then be possible to install Sentilla Point on old Tmote Invent
hardware, for example? It would be useful to know this now, so that
those of us using Tmote hardware can plan ahead.

> With a full software platform for development, deployment,
> integration, and management, our customers -- both academic and
> commercial -- now have the necessary infrastructure to quickly build
> intelligence into embedded systems.  No longer do you need to install
> cygwin, configure gcc packages, learn a new language, or hack embedded
> code.  You can now use all the tools you know and love to write Java
> applications -- including Eclipse and soon NetBeans.

That's not so much an argument for Java as against TinyOS' rather mad
configuration! :-)

That said, thanks for keeping in touch with people on this list.

Cheers,

Sarah


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