October 17, 2007 by Muneeb Ali | 1 Comment
The Sentilla Hype
| The past some hours have been very exciting for sensornet researchers world wide with one of the leading hardware companies (Moteiv) making a huge change of direction and embracing Java as the de facto development platform for sensornets. This move by Sentilla (previously known as Moteiv) can potentially broaden the field of sensornets and bring us closer to the “orginal” vision of pervasive computing of the late 90s (think Project Oxygen). |  |
This move spawns a lot of open questions; what implications would it have on the direction in which sensornet research is heading? what happens to tailored operating systems for sensornets? are the days of C and NesC over? We don’t know and are open to debate!
At this point the Sentilla development kit is in beta version and is available by invitation only. We already know a number of people who simply can’t wait to get their hands on this development kit – you can try your luck here.
I have not experiences with WSNs dev in Java. So I don’t konw whether Java could bring developer better experience or/and productivity. But I see the next step of WSNs should consist of more powerful hardware, more powerful IDE, various interface to upper software.