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TinyOS is an open source, BSD-licensed operating system
designed for low-power wireless devices, such as those
used in sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, personal
area networks, smart buildings, and smart meters. A
worldwide community from academia and industry use,
develop, and support the operating system as well as its
associated tools, averaging 35,000 downloads a year.
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Latest News
July 21, 2010: The transition from hosting
TinyOS at Sourceforge to Google
code is now complete. Part of this transition
included placing all of TinyOS under a New
BSD license (in Sourceforge several compatible
licenses were used). Thanks to all of the developers
for agreeing to move to a uniform license!
April 6, 2010: TinyOS 2.1.1 is now
officially released; you can download it from the
debian packages on tinyos.stanford.edu, or manual
installation with RPMs with the
instructions on docs.tinyos.net. TinyOS 2.1.1
includes:
- Support for the epic, mulle, and shimmer2
platforms,
- Support for 6lowpan, an IPv6 networking layer
within the TinyOS network,
- Support for simple, uniform low-power
networking across many protocols,
- Support for security on the CC2420 radio
- Improvements to many existing services and
protocols, including the inclusion of a new
dissemination protocol (DHV), improvements to CTP,
improved TOSThreads documentation, and numerous
bug fixes.
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