Quoting Philip Levis, who coordinates the WG efforts:
“..Historically, the WG list has been closed only to members, with non-members being able to read the archives online. A few weeks ago, the WG decided that it would be better if most technical discussions occurred in a public forum. We decided that this would be an excellent use of tinyos-devel. The private WG list still exists, but we plan to use it mostly for administrative issues, such as organizing teleconferences and release management.. ”

As they are starting to package up 2.0.2, there would be a few discussions on some proposed changes for the next release, 2.1. According to the recent peak of activity in the tinyos-devel list, currently active developers are planning to include a new version of the Python stack developed by Matt Welsh and his group at Hardvard, which will permit to migrate all PC-side tools to Python.

Among other interesting contributions, there is a new implementation of the serial forwarder for T2 in C++, by Andreas Koepke from TU Berlin, which may also be included. Been more reliable and showing higher throuput, the new code it’s tailored to run on the ARM based NSLU2.

Interested to catch up with more details and contribute? You might be willing to join the list here

Ambient, the Dutch company innovating with WSN products, has received the prestigious Dutch award for Young Entrepreneurship. ” ..for their innovative products, which are based on years of highly innovative research and development”.

With offices located in the Business & Science Park of the city of Enschede, the Netherlands, it has been an attraction to several state authorities recently.

They have developed solutions for food monitoring, an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and automatic meter reading (AMR) that they claim is flexible, scalable, and affordable. The system is intended for electric, water, and gas utilities. Offering remote setup and configuration capabilities and providing access to all meter functions.

Previously this year its CTO Paul Havinga has received an ICT Innovation Award.

Detailed story here

SPOT World has been ported to run on a cell phone and uses a Sun SPOT connected to a Bluetooth module to act as a base station proxy to the world.

A video of all this working is available here:

http://vimeo.com/221524

The SPOT World that is running on the cell phone is the same code that is available on the Sun SPOT’s CD with some minor modifications to make it JME compatible. The standard SPOT World views, Tree View and Grid View, can’t run on a cell phone because they require JFC/Swing. To overcome this problem the author created his own view, Menu View, which allows one to manipulate remote SPOTs using a standard cell phone list UI. The other addition is code to open a Bluetooth radio stream connection to the Bluetooth-enabled SPOT.

Great work!