Contiki 2.6: IPv6 For Everything, Everywhere 62
An anonymous reader writes "The Contiki project just released version 2.6 of its open source operating system for the Internet of Things, used to track city sound pollution, control street lights, read power meters, monitor radiation, among other things. The technology behind it? A really tiny IPv6 stack that fits in a few kilobytes of memory, allowing everything, everywhere to have an IPv6 address."
Significance? (Score:3, Interesting)
Back in 2008, the same project was quoting "a code size of 11 kilobytes and a dynamic memory usage of less than 2 kilobytes" http://tech.slashdot.org/story/08/10/15/1839209/worlds-smallest-ipv6-stack-by-cisco-atmel-sics [slashdot.org]
Now we have "fits in a few kilobytes of memory" ...
So this seems to be a nice incremental improvement?
Any experts on embedded systems able to give insight into the importance of (lets say) 16kB in the old version versus (lets again say) 4-6kB including dynamic stack ??
Re:Great! Now just solve the routing problem! (Score:4, Interesting)
Rain is probably a bigger problem. Not sure about in the states but the topical storms we get over here in monsoon season ruin all signals.