Crossbow Technology Announces TinyOS 2.0 Support for IRIS Motes

Business Wire, Feb 5, 2008

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Crossbow Technology, Inc. today announces the availability of platform support for IRIS wireless sensor network nodes under TinyOS 2.0, the latest major release of the popular open source embedded operating system. This platform support arises from work performed at Vanderbilt University and its well-regarded Institute for Software Integrated Systems.

Wireless sensor network developers and researchers benefit from Vanderbilt University's well-established, recognized expertise in TinyOS development and continued support of released code. "We are pleased to have received Crossbow's support for the advancement of the open source TinyOS 2.0 environment and continued development of leading edge wireless sensor network platforms," said Professor Akos Ledeczi, Research Associate Professor and principal investigator on the project.

Crossbow, the leading provider of wireless sensor nodes, or "motes," offers broad operating system choice. One or more Crossbow platforms are now supported on development environments, including Contiki, Linux, LiteOS, Mantis, Microsoft .NET Micro Framework, MoteWorks, SOS, and TinyOS. "Crossbow's ability to provide software choice enables rapid development of the newest and most innovative applications of wireless sensor networks," said Robert Robinson, Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Crossbow's wireless division.

Benefits of TinyOS 2.0 include better hardware abstraction model as well as improved timers, sensor interfaces, power management, arbitration and much more. Instructions for royalty-free download and use of Vanderbilt's open-source code release of TinyOS 2.0 for IRIS are available at:

http://www.isis.vanderbilt.edu/projects/NEST/tinyos-2.x-iris/doc/ html/install-tinyos-iris.html (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.)

Crossbow's IRIS product line includes the IRIS OEM Module, IRIS Mote, and related sensor boards. Examine all IRIS and other Crossbow wireless sensor networking products for sale at Crossbow's website. Benefits of the IRIS mote include excellent RF range (over 3x of previous generation motes), substantially lower sleep current (50% of previous generations), and double the program memory (8KB).

About Crossbow Technology, Inc.

Crossbow changes the technology landscape with leading-edge inertial systems and is at the heart of innovative wireless sensor networks with low-power, open architecture platforms. For more information, visit www.xbow.com.