Contiki Port for Crossbow's MICAz Mote

Contiki is an open source, highly portable, multi-tasking operating system for memory-efficient networked embedded systems and wireless sensor networks. It has been used is a variety of projects, such as road tunnel fire monitoring, intrusion detection, water monitoring in the Baltic Sea, and in surveillance networks.

Designed for microcontrollers with small amounts of memory and providing IP communication, both for IPv4 and IPv6, a typical Contiki configuration is 2 kilobytes of RAM and 40 kilobytes of ROM. As of yesterday, there was a new Contiki target in the development code: a port for Crossbow's MicaZ Mote, the popular prototyping and research platform for wireless sensor networks. The MicaZ port was developed by Kasun Hewage from the University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka.

Contiki is developed by a group of developers from industry and academia lead by Adam Dunkels from the Swedish Institute of Computer Science. Dunkels was recently named by Technology Review as one of the Top Young Innovators under 35 in 2009 for his development of minimal wireless-networking protocols that allow almost any device to communicate over the Internet. He wrote the uIP for Crossbow's TelosB Mote platform.

The Contiki team currently has sixteen members from SICS, SAP AG, Cisco, Atmel, NewAE and TU Münich. For more information on this operating system visit the Contiki site here.