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.
