[Olsr-dev] ;-) sensor nodes + olsr

[Chiang Kang Tan]

Perhaps you guys might be interested in Java SunSpot motes, which are more powerful than the common sensor motes that run on TinyOS. Presumably porting OLSR to Java Virtual Machine should be easier?! :) 

Chiang

----- Original Message ----
> From: Aaron Kaplan <(spam-protected)>
> To: Jens Nachtigall <(spam-protected)>
> Cc: OLSR development <(spam-protected)>
> Sent: Monday, 5 May, 2008 8:13:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [Olsr-dev] ;-) sensor nodes + olsr
> 
> 
> On May 5, 2008, at 8:38 PM, Jens Nachtigall wrote:
> 
> >> How to turn OLSR into a simple sensor node the fast way:
> >>
> >> http://www.olsr.org/?q=node/24
> >
> > HarHarHar ;-)
> >
> > Seriously, does olsrd run on something like a sensor node, i.e. one  
> > level
> > below the usual wifi routers like the wrt54g and their like? I mean  
> > those
> > typically have only a few KB RAM and flash and run something like  
> > TinyOS:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor_node#List_of_Sensor_Nodes
> >
> >
> 
> Well with that volume of sales, the iPhone might just count as a  
> cheap sensor node with a massive CPU ;-)
> 
> But to answer your question: no, the code size is ~ 170 KB, we need  
> some more RAM and I think nobody has ported it over to TinyOS yet.
> But VxWorks was done and we got the patches already (against 0.5.5) -  
> so that might turn out to be a very nice feature. Lots of the serious  
> embedded world runs on VxWorks.
> 
> I have been running olsrd on a gumstix board. Also quite small and  
> neat. Works like a charm.
> 
> a.
> 
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