The Internet Engineering Task Force has kicked off a standards effort to provide one of the missing puzzle pieces for wireless sensor networks. Aiming to define a spec for Internet Protocol as early as next summer, the IETF’s Routing over Low-power and Lossy Networks (Roll) group is pursuing a standard way for control and sensor nodes on Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 802.15.4 nets to link to the broader Internet.

Today’s sensor networks employ multiple technologies serving a variety of industries, some of which are battling to define the next phase of embedded Internet.

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The Duke Award goes to Sentilla! The prize has been given by James Gosling, the father of Java, and is the biggest award that a company can receive. The Duke Award is the only award given out at JavaOne, a conference with hundreds of exhibitors and over 15,000 attendees.

Congrats to Sentilla and the Sentilla team. They have achieved something that no other company has done–putting a full Java system on 8-bit and 16-bit microcontrollers. They have opened this world up to Java programmers, a huge accomplishment. They have put Java on the world’s smallest computers. Java runs with no compromises — they have not pared anything back. If your application runs on any other certified Java ME system, it will work with Sentilla.

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