Adam Dunkels on Embedded Sensor Networks

Posted by Zonk on Saturday March 5, 2005 @04:29AM from the mr.-data-you're-with-me dept.

tl writes "netzstaub has posted an extensive interview with Adam Dunkels, a computer scientist working in the field of wireless sensor networks and author of the open source lwIP and uIP embedded TCP/IP stacks, the Contiki OS, and the Protothreads library. The interview touches on protothreads, sensor networks, TCP/IP, Contiki, and embedded software development. Many Slashdot readers probably remember the tiny Contiki OS from previous articles where, not surprisingly, clustering has been discussed. From reading the interview, it seems Contiki clusters now have come true."

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Local weather webcam by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-05 05:10 · Score: 1, Insightful

I would like to see a local weather collaboration system.
If we could have cheap weather stations and webcams staring at the sky, linked together with users multiple users per town then MythTV could not only say if today will have some rain, but could verify if I can bike to the train station without getting wet.

The sensor network of webcams could track and predict individual clouds and rainfall as a the wind pushes a raining cloud across the sensor network of multiple webcam equipped homes.