WELCOME

David Culler

2/26/04

2/26/04 TinyOS Tech Exchange

So what is this all about?

• Meeting point for the larger TinyOS community– Beyond UCB, UCLA, Intel, Crossbow, NEST, …– Open developers forum / Users Group

• Starting Point in forming a more interactive open source development effort– bugs, patches, tools, lessons, subsystems, standards, ….

• Opportunity to learn, share and exchange what we all have done – or are about to do

• Set Direction– Open hard problems, missing pieces, …– Development plan– Research activities– Working Groups

2/26/04 TinyOS Tech Exchange

Who are we?

• Alico Systems Inc• BBN Bechtel Nevada• Canesta Inc. CH2M HILL• ChevronTexaco Crossbow

Technology• Dust Inc• France Telecom R&D• GMD Resources• IDG World Expo Impressima Inc.• Innovative Mfg. Intel• JLH Labs• Kleinnet• LUXOFT• MITRE Corp Motorola Labs• Proqueome• Remote Sensing Lab• Robert Bosch Corporation• Sensis Corporation• SOC Machines Inc.• SoftwareMakers Inc.• SRI International ST• Sun Microsystems

• Oak Ridge national Lab• Sandia National Laboratories

• Harvard University• Imperial College London• MIT• National Chiao Tung University• Rutgers• SJSU• Stanford• Ohio State University• Tokyo Denki University• U C Berkeley• UC DAVIS• UCLA• UCR• UIUC• University of Maryland• University of Tokyo• USC-Information Sciences

Institute• Vanderbilt University

2/26/04 TinyOS Tech Exchange

The Core Challenge

• Maintain a rapid pace of innovation– supporting a diverse set of research investigations

– demonstrate implementation of concepts

– “Rough Consensus, Working Code”

while

• Providing a stable platform with predictable growth– allow industry to grow around it

– allow application deployments (study, demo, pilot, etc.)

– research continually folds back in

» stand on shoulders, not feet

2/26/04 TinyOS Tech Exchange

Why Now?

• The TinyOS code base and its development path is stable and important enough to make organizing the larger development community worthwhile.

• Wireless embedded networks are taking off– Companies popping up everywhere– Fed. Gov’t support kicking in– IEEE 802.15.4 is here, Zigbee is 6-12 months off

• Open community can do what it does best– Move fast with real competitive ideas and implementations

• Building the TinyOS Alliance– Industrial / academic members, advisory board, technical

board– Start BSD-like and spin out into “foundation”

2/26/04 TinyOS Tech Exchange

Structure of the Day

• Short Important Recent Developments– Largely UCB / Intel based

– Focused tinyOS updates and plans

• Poster / Demo session– Largely not UCB / Intel based

– Wider range of topics

• Working Groups (start over Lunch)

• Panels– Nurturing industry

– Nurturing open source community

• Reports from Working Groups

• Next Steps