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The main Sun SPOT hardware itself is now available on Java.net. You can find it here. At this point all major parts of the Sun SPOT project are open source – hardware, operating system/virtual machine, drivers and libraries, applications, documentation…

We are happy to announce the first public release of the Re-Mote Testbed Framework featuring code developed in collaboration between DIKU and CIT. The Re-Mote Testbed Framework is a collection of modules for providing remote access to wireless sensor network

The CPS-CA’08 workshop will be held 11/JUN/2008 in Santorini Island (Greece), in conjunction with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS’08) Although the IT transformation in the 20th century appeared revolutionary, a bigger change is

The 7th International Workshop on Real-Time Networks (RTN’08) is a satellite workshop to the 20th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS’08), both to be held in the beautiful city of Prague, Czech Republic, during the first week of July. ECRTS

On May 12th, Luca Mottola and Gian Pietro Picco will give a tutorial on “Programming Wireless Sensor Networks: From Theory to Practice” at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’08), in Leipzig (Germany). The tutorial includes a hands-on session on

The ability to scatter lots of wireless sensors over a wide area has tremendous potential, whether it’s tracking the melting of a glacier, the stress on a bridge span or the temperature in your home. The trick? Making them cheap

From Bruno Giussani’s blog: Question: how much do you know about the quality of your own, personal, local climate? Do you know the concentration of CO2 in the air you’re breathing, in the air that people are breathing in your

From Crossbow’s blog: Can you imagine a place where the temperature can get to -82°C? A place without sunlight for half the year. Imagine a frozen desert with no permanent human population – the coldest, driest and windiest continent on

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are quickly gaining popularity in both military and civilian applications. However, WSN is especially vulnerable against external and internal attacks due to its particular characteristics. It is necessary to provide WSN with basic security mechanisms and