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.
