| MICA Platform Design and HW verification tools
Lesson 0: Check your install and
hardware
Lesson 0 walks though the toscheck tool and the mica_hardware_verify
application.
Lesson 1: An Introduction to
Tiny OS
Lesson 1 introduces the major concepts required to program Tiny OS
applications. These include a description of components, frames, commands,
and events. The Tiny OS programming model is explained. The role of each
of the different file types are detailed.
NEST Sensor Board Design
Lesson 2: Event-driven Sensor
Acquisition
The Tiny OS platform provides primitives to obtain sensing data from
tiny networked devices. This lesson details how to build a simple sensing
application that records the light exposure on a photo diode.
Lesson 3: Introducing Tasks
for Application Data Processing
The roles of both tasks and events are described. This lesson illustrates
the use of tasks to process data from the sense application in lesson 2
and events to receive the sensor data and pass it on to the background
running task.
Lesson 4: Composing Components
to Send and Receive Messages
Lesson 4 introduces basic abstraction to send integers via the RFM
radio stack. A counter application is built that sends the current value
of the counter over the RF radio.
TOSSIM Lesson: Using the
Simulator to Develop TinyOS Components
TOSSIM is the TinyOS simulator. Learn how to build, debug, and run
components using TOSSIM.
Lesson 5: Displaying Data on
a PC
In order to utilize the data from the tiny networked sensors, we must
be able to analyze it on the host computer. This lesson provides an example
application that graphs the light readings from the sensors over time.
Lesson 6: Broadcasting Packets
Lesson 6 has three components.
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It shows how to inject packets from a host environment.
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This is used to drive a simple message-based command interpreter.
A general abstraction is used for sending arbitrary packets over the RFM
radio stack.
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A multihop broadcast application is built that floods the network with
a task to be performed.
Lesson 7: Data Logging Application
The final lesson provides a fairly complete application for remote
data logging and collection. It also illustrates a simple multihop data
propogation method that allows data to be collected by a central location.
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