Protothreads are extremely lightweight stackless threads designed for severely memory constrained systems, such as small embedded systems or wireless sensor network nodes. Event-driven programming is often considered “hard” because of the need to explicitly manage state-machines. Protothreads significantly reduce the complexity of programming memory constrained systems by making it possible to write event-driven programs in [...]
Kris Pister and Rob Conant from Dust Networks discuss wireless sensor networking technology – from the spark of an idea in the mid 90’s through the reliable networks available today. The webcast is available here.
Mention “monitoring” in a word association game with most IT professionals and chances are they will immediately think of traditional system management software and the administrative processes that go with it. However, servers and network devices are sensitive and require a controlled physical environment for reliable performance, and while most businesses realize the necessity of [...]
