Archive for July 14th, 2008

Can’t Find a Parking Spot? Check Smartphone

Monday, July 14th, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO — The secret to finding the perfect parking spot in congested cities is usually just a matter of luck. But drivers here will get some help from an innocuous tab of plastic that will soon be glued to the streets.

This fall, San Francisco will test 6,000 of its 24,000 metered parking spaces in the nation’s most ambitious trial of a wireless sensor network that will announce which of the spaces are free at any moment.

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Release of Contiki 2.2

Monday, July 14th, 2008

The Contiki project is happy to announce the release of version 2.2 of the Contiki operating system! Contiki 2.2 brings a set of new features: the shell has been much improved and now supports network-level commands, low-power radio networking, sensor data collection, and power profiling; Coffee, a new flash ROM-based file system; contiki-collect: a program for collecting and displaying sensor data from the network; a network time synchronization mechanism; the Chameleon architecture that separates protocol headers from protocol logic; the LPP experimental power-saving MAC protocol.

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