Submission + - IP Meets Physical Reality - Next Stop for Google? (osnews.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: When Google is clouding
the borderline between web and the desktop, a much, much smaller
project is blurring the border between the Internet and the
physical reality: the newly released Contiki
operating system version 2.2.1. Contiki runs on networked wireless
sensors that are used for anything from road
tunnel monitoring for fire rescue operations to collecting vital
statistics from ice hockey players. These sensors
typically have as little as a few kilobytes of memory and a few
milliwatts of power budget — a thousandth of the resources of a
typical PC computer — yet Contiki provides them with full TCP/IP
connectivity. Meanwhile, San Francisco is monitoring parking spaces with wireless technology. If IP can run on anything and the Internet is about to reach out into the physical reality, what happens when Google gets involved?
