LiteOS v. 1.0 Released with Support for IRIS Mote Platform

In July of 2007, Crossbow Solutions featured the development of LiteOS by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. LiteOS is a UNIX-like operating system that fits on memory-constrained devices like Crossbow's Mote platforms. This operating system allows users to operate wireless sensor networks like operating UNIX.

Version 1.0 of LiteOS has just been released. Now offering complete support for Crossbow's popular IRIS Mote platform, several new features have been implemented. Key Features in Version 1.0 include:

• Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux Support
• Support for MICAz and IRIS nodes
• Plug-and play routing stack
• Extremely lightweight event logging
• Unix like commands to operate the entire sensor network
• Multi-threading kernel
• Write applications in C
• Native wireless reprogramming
• Built-in hierarchical file system
• Extensive development libraries
• Java tools to display and visualize data
• Online debugging support, including variable watches and unlimited number of breakpoints
• Elastic dynamic memory that has almost zero overhead
• Snapshot a thread state or restore it to a previous state
• Installer for quickly deploying the LiteOS operating system
• Documentation to quickly get started with operating and programming

The goal of LiteOS is to simplify sensor network programming. For more information on this OS, click here.