TinyOS innovation

KETI(Korea Electronics Technology Institute)

Jeonghoon Kang

TTX5, 02 / 22 / 2008

Innovation driven by what

• What makes innovation ?– Approach to

• the better TinyOS software and hardware

• What makes this approach?– R&D activity

– Personal interest & fun

– Business

Where we are ?

• Expecting computer Roadmap– Many people are sure that

• Distributed internet thing2thing computing will come

• Really nice wireless sensor network resource : TinyOS is working good– Many things done in research side based on TinyOS

• Early stage of business & standard– Various specification and standard for WSN

– more company getting to play with WSN

• We are in front of WSN Business time but no big company players

What is driving innovation ?

• TinyOS Mall (gives open competition)– www.tinyosmall.co.kr, www.tinyosmall.com

– Internet shopping mall for TinyOS product

– Open for manufacturing company• It may cover all kinds of wireless embedded network product though

– It gives a business opportunity for some company to• Supply another motes

• Supply sensor boards

• Supply application and software

– New TinyOS products will be out more and more

What happened ?

• It pushed more company move quickly

• New Motes from Korean company– New platforms by some company (design with KETI)

• Kmote (Telos B, InTech)

• Kmote2 (MSP430 F 4618, Solution Tech)

• Umote (Telos B, Union, www.union.co.kr)– Small form factor with buttons

• HWmote (MicaZ, Hahnwool optics)

• New TIP series (Maxfor, www.maxfor.co.kr))– Module size

– CC2431 based solution

What happened ?

• More finished products– Motion detecting sensor

– Door magnetic sensor

• More devices– Gateway platform with mote

– Agricultural sensor enabled mote platform

– Electric Power sensor enabled mote platform

– Structural vibration monitoring mote platform