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TCP/IP Meets Physical Reality

Posted by timothy on from the connecting-things-to-stuff dept.

An anonymous reader writes "When Google is clouding the borderline between web and the desktop, a much, much smaller project is blurring the border between the Internet and the physical reality: the newly released Contiki operating system version 2.2.1. Contiki runs on networked wireless sensors that are used for anything from road tunnel monitoring for fire rescue operations to collecting vital statistics from ice hockey players. These sensors typically have as little as a few kilobytes of memory and a few milliwatts of power budget — a thousandth of the resources of a typical PC computer — yet Contiki provides them with full TCP/IP connectivity. Meanwhile, San Francisco is monitoring parking spaces with wireless technology."

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  1. Re:Retarded headline by psycho+sparky · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's the lawyer in you, not the geek.

  2. Re:Also runs on C64 by MichaelSmith · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sounds great for the openmoko.

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  3. Re:Cyberpace daemons! by Tangent128 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Look on the bright side- you can surround your house with a firewall and have a barbecue! Just like in the movies!

    Plus all those retailers giving you free cookies...

  4. Re:It is a shame. by ColdWetDog · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is a shame that people think that getting something to fit into 64k of ram is a big deal. I remember spending over $100 to upgrade my Apple ][+ clone from 48k 60 64k.
    Much of the code today is poorly written and wasteful of memory.

    Right. Of course, you were running 1900 x 1200 x millions of colors on that old Apple ][ monitor weren't you? And connecting at 1 Mbs? And downloading YouTube?

    Hell, at best you were downloading ASCII porn.

    Back to the Dungeons of Yesteryear for you!

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