This book is about writing TINYOS systems and applications in the nesC language. This chapter gives a
brief overview of TINYOS and its intended uses. TINYOS is an open-source project which a large number of
research universities and companies contribute to. The main TINYOS website, http://www.TINYOS.net,
has instructions for downloading and installing the TINYOS programming environment. The website has a
great deal of useful information which this book doesn’t cover, such as common hardware platforms and
how to install code on a node.
