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World’s First Online Development Environment for the Internet of Things Announced

Thingsquare  announced Thingsquare Code, to help connect products such as light bulbs, thermostats, and smart city systems to smartphone apps. Thingsquare Code is the world’s first online interactive development environment (IDE) for the Internet of Things and works with a number of recent chips that target the emerging Internet of Things market, from leading chip vendors Texas Instruments and ST Microelectronics.

Thingsquare Code lets developers of Internet of Things products program their wireless chips from a web browser. Before Thingsquare Code, developing Internet of Things products used to be time-consuming and would require extensive expertise on behalf of the developer. With Thingsquare Code, developers can quickly prototype and validate their products, directly from their web browsers.

“The latest IP/6LoWPAN solutions for IoT applications from Texas Instruments (TI) will be ready for Thingsquare Code,” said Oyvind Birkenes, general manager, Wireless Connectivity Solutions, TI. “Thingsquare opens the door to developers from various disciplines to connect their products faster to the Internet. This is truly revolutionary.”

“Thingsquare Code already works with a number of microprocessor platforms, including the ARM Cortex M3 and the TI MSP430,” said Thingsquare chief architect Adam Dunkels. “With our secure cloud connectivity solution, devices can be programmed without cables and without having to install compiler toolchains, which is a large step forward for IoT programming.”

Thingsquare Code is currently available for beta testers and will be available for use with a number of wireless chips for the emerging Internet of Things market developed by Texas Instruments and ST Microelectronics.

More info here.

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Why the Internet of Things Needs IPv6

The transition to IPv6 is important not only because the 4.3 billion IPv4 addresses are running out, but also because the proliferation of Internet-connected devices is creating a new environment of information. “The Internet of Things is very much upon on us,” said Vint Cerf, Google’s chief Internet evangelist, at the Rocky Mountain IPv6 Summit on Thursday, April 18, in Denver.

Every device that connects to the Internet requires an IP address, and it has been predicted that by 2020 there will be 50 billion Internet-enabled devices in the world. To put that number in perspective, that equates to more than six connected devices per person, based on an expected global population of 7.6 billion people. “With the explosion of mobile devices — especially as asset intelligence and machine-to-machine embed connectivity in literally everything — unique IP addresses are becoming a scarce resource,” according to Deloitte.

Thus the move to IPv6 is necessary as it provides an almost unimaginable number of IP addresses — 18 quintillion blocks of 18 quintillion possible addresses.

In a prerecorded video speech, Cerf said the proliferation of Internet connections will include automobiles. While not as high-tech as Google’s self-driving car, Cerf said in the future, vehicles will report their condition and other information in order to aid maintenance. In addition, medical and scientific instruments will automatically record and report their status as well as the data they collect. “So all of you working on IPv6 are in fact working on a much larger and much more challenging scope and that is this avalanche of content and information,” Cerf said.

In addition to allowing for an increasingly connected world, IPv6 will also benefit public safety communications. Latif Ladid, president of the Global IPv6 Forum, said IPv6-enabled devices, such as iPhones, provide better communication interoperability than first responders currently have. Upgrading to the new protocol will allow public safety workers to use LTE directly, enabling the sharing of not only voice communications, but also photos and videos. However, proprietary solutions and legacy systems can halt progress. “We have found that this is an important area that is going to take more decision-making than just the technology itself,” Ladid said.

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Coalesenses: IPv4 and IPv6 Dual Network Stack

Coalesenses offers an IPv4 and IPv6 dual network stack to easily integrate wireless sensor nodes into the internet. Based upon the iSense OS and Networking Firmware, it comprises all functionality required for connecting wireless sensor networks with existing network installations using the internet protocol family.

Within the sensor network, the 6LoWPAN protocol suite (including implementations of neighbor discovery, header compression and fragmentation) is used to transmit IPv6 datagrams over the IEEE 802.15.4 link layer radio interface. The stack supports both the Route-Over and Mesh-Under mode in the sensor network, functionality for routers within the network as well as for 6LoWPAN border routers is included.

Besides UDP and TCP, a HTTP server including Digest Authentication is part of the stack. In addition, it provides a full-featured Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) server (including the Observe Draft). Hence, the stack is ready to offer Restful Webservices within your wireless network.

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Why Bosch rigs up IPv6?

Bosch prepares for the next version of the internet, Web 3.0: The Internet of Things and Servicesis a smarter web, enabling better ways to share information not only for computers, but also for even the most common things of our daily life. Predicted by technology evangelists and market researchers as well, the Internet of Things and Services will have large impact on us, society, and systems. In the coming years, more and more intelligent systems will be able to use the internet to communicate automatically with each other. In just 15 years, the resulting Internet of Things and Services will interconnect more than 50 billion components – from tiny sensors to high performance computers.

Many applications in different domains will be coming up like:

  • eHealth: The future of healthcare lies in creating tighter connections between physicians, hospitals, rescue centers and patients by using modern technologies.
  • eMobility: To make electric vehicles widely accepted, it will take a sophisticated charging infrastructure, an intelligent system to orchestrate this new industry with vehicles, charging service providers, and utilities.
  • eProduction: In the efficient industrial production of tomorrow, decisions will be made real-time derived from event-driven supply chains and diagnoses.
  • eEnergy: Energy Management targets to optimize energy demand and consumption in different ways, at utilities, at industrial, at communal or at private consumers.
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Contiki 2.5 Released

Contiki 2.5 is finally out! New in Contiki 2.5 are ContikiRPL, the Contiki implementation of the new IETF RPL IPv6 routing protocol, ContikiMAC, a radio duty cycling mechanism that allows routing nodes to keep the radios off for more than 99% of the time, Contiki Collect, a complete rewrite of Contiki’s native data collection protocol, and an implementation of the IETF CoRE CoAP Protocol.

You can Download here. Changelog is available here.

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Sensinode releases Updated Software Libraries for Texas Instruments Chips

Sensinode Ltd., a leading provider of software that powers the Internet of Things, today announced release of its NanostackTM 2.0 Library for two hardware platforms from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI); the CC2530 2.4Ghz radio frequency system-on-chip (SOC) and the low-power RF (LPRF) platform of integrated, sub- 1GHZ CC430 MCUs for ultra-low-power wireless network applications. With the updated release of NanostackTM 2.0, developers can quickly implement embedded Internet applications that leverage LPRF technology in hugely scalable mesh networks.

The Sensinode Nanostack 2.0 Library includes all required software to configure network nodes compliant with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) 6LoWPAN specification (RFC4944) and related standards. This core technology enables IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) connectivity to IEEE 802.15.4 wireless network devices.

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Intro to DASH7 Mode 2.0

DASH7 Webinar on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM PDT (GMT – 7)

DASH7 Mode 2 is a new, low-power wireless technology that takes the strong-points of traditional DASH7 (i.e. Mode 1) and makes them even stronger, while also adding a series of new features made possible by recent advances in semiconductor technology.  Some of these new features include: additional low-power modes, improved throughput, multi-channel communication, cryptographic security support, IPv6 addressing support.

In 90 minutes you will learn how Mode 2 can solve many problems that other low power wireless technologies simply cannot, starting with descriptions of the features and architecture, and then moving to example applications and use-cases.

More info on Mode2 is summarised here (pdf ~900Kb)

Registration for webinar available here.

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Contiki Crash Course

Contiki Crash Course

Participants to the CONET SENIOT Summer School held in Bertinoro, Italy, this summer had the opportunity to attend an interesting hands-on session with basic exercises with the Contiki Operating System for WSN. Material from the course is available online, you could download the slides from the presentation and session notes. The material is self consistent so you could try it out too!

Contiki, developed mostly at SICS since 2003, has reached a level of stability that is interesting to explore further and it also has a growing community of users. Earlier this month, two new ports were made avaialbe: Crosbow MicaZ and Sensinode, besides other platforms already supported.

Everything Contiki available here

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In a BLIP, pervasive IP has arrived

From Crossbow’s blog:

Back in March some researchers at UC Berkeley released an Open Source implementation of IPv6 running on TinyOS 2.x called BLIP (Berkeley Low-power Internet Protocol). BLIP is a work in progress.  It is currently fully supported on the TelosB platform and works on MICAz when compiled in a memory-constrained mode.  It is being folded into the TinyOS 2.x core with a slated release date of late August 2009.  The version in contrib/berkeley/blip is the correct one to use, however, as that one will actually build without manually adding radio stack modifications that are still being negotiated.  IRIS support is in the works as well with the initial port being done by European researchers Miklos Maroti and Lars Schor.  An improved release candidate of BLIP is slated to be pushed into contrib as early as next week.

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Contiki 2.3

Contiki 2.3 is now available. It brings a new IPv6 routing layer, IPv6/6lowpan for the Tmote Sky platform, the Cooja TimeLine, a set of new shell commands, improvements to the LPP and X-MAC power-saving radio protocols, a new port to the MSB430 platform, and a Twitter client.

The release also includes an updated version of Instant Contiki, the Contiki development environment.

Check their the web site for downloads

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