Java seems to be the future of wireless motes

About a year ago we wanted to get our hands on some Sun SPOTs motes for our project because we have more people around that know how to write Java applications and use the familiar development tools (not many people heard of TinyOS’s nesC, and using the primitive word editor to write applications seems to be the norm!). But unfortunately Sun, or more precisely that particular team, was unable to deliver their products on time, not to mention shipping products outside the US, due to ROHS issues.

Now another major mote manufacturer seems to share the vision of using Java as the platform for developing applications for the wireless sensor motes. “We at Sentilla (formerly Moteiv) are extremely excited about the use of Java technology in our products”, quoted from Joe Polastre of Sentilla (see here for more details). As I said, this makes a lot of sense and it will be interesting to see if Crossbow will soon follow suit. Java may soon be the future.

Related blog posts:

• SunSPOTs available in the EU
• ZigBee-compliant
• Wireless sensor that sits behind the ear