Thingsquare IoT and Contiki courses - now online too

For spring 2014, the Thingsquare IoT development and Contiki programming course program has been expanded with both a new on-site workshop on advanced Contiki programming and a new set of online courses.

Check out the Thingsquare online courses here and the two-day workshop training courses here.

The courses are intended for developers and decision makers who want to hit the ground running when planning or developing their connected products. If you want to build the next Nest, these courses are for you!

The online courses are intended to broaden the amount of people who can attend the Thingsquare courses, to get more people up and running.

The two-day workshop courses are running as usual in Stockholm, Sweden. Register quickly to get the early-bird discount!

Contiki-based Products at CES 2014

Held in January every year in Las Vegas and with some 160000 attendees, the Consumer Electronics Show, CES, is by far the largest event in the consumer electronics industry. Products are launched, announcements are made, and the press goes wild.

At CES 2014, a number of products and systems based on Contiki were shown:

WigWag

WigWag is a system for building intelligent environments that had a successful Kickstarter funding campaign in 2013.

Thingsquare

Thingsquare was there to show the Contiki-based Thingsquare cloud IoT system. Check out this video where Texas Instruments demonstrates the Thingsquare system:

LIFX

 

The LIFX WiFi bulbs were also repressented.

tado°

tado° is an app that lets you set the comfort of your home directly from your smartphone. Read more about tado° at CES 2014 here.

Instant Contiki 2.7 Available

Following the Contiki 2.7 release, version 2.7 of the Instant Contiki development environment is now available:

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/contiki/files/Instant%20Contiki/Instant%20Contiki%202.7/

Instant Contiki is a single-file download that contains everything needed to work with Contiki: compilers, toolsets, editors. For information on how to get started, see this link.

Contiki 2.7 Released!

After a long wait, Contiki 2.7 is finally released!

Contiki 2.7 is a massive improvement over previous versions. A lot of effort has gone into making the system really stable, particularly the wireless IPv6 mesh networking. We now have a regression testing framework that kicks in on every commit and runs the system on 9 different emulated hardware platforms with 4 different CPUs and on more than 1000 emulated wireless network nodes. We have found several hard-to-find bugs deep in the network stack that show up as we push the envelope on system performance. Several parts of the IPv6 stack has also been rewritten to make the code easier to follow and for everything to work better.

The Contiki 2.7 release also adds new platforms, such as the TI CC2538 802.15.4 System-on-a-Chip and the PIC32, as well as updates to many of the other platforms.

The full source code can be downloaded from

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/contiki/files/Contiki/Contiki%202.7/

An updated version of Instant Contiki will follow shortly.

Contiki 3.x Roadmap

Update: Discussion about the roadmap for Contiki 3.x here and here.

Changelog

New features and mechanisms:

• Regression test framework
• Travis integration
• New code style script
• mDNS
• Trickle timer library
• Compiler output less verbose

Critical bugfixes in:

• CSMA
• 802.15.4 framer
• Nullrdc
• ContikiMAC
• 6lowpan fragmentation handling
• IPv6
• RPL routing

IPv6 stack:

• IPv6 neighbor table refactorization
• IPv6 routing table refactorization
• RPL rewrite
• RPL auto-repair of failed routes
• IPv6 stack monitor if neighbor fails
• Callbacks on routing table changes
• 6lowpan: allow the maximum radio frame size to be configured

Platforms:

• New TI CC2538 802.15.4 System-on-a-Chip platform
• New PIC32 / SeedEye platform
• STM32w updated
• CC2430 updated
• MC1322x updated

Cooja:

• Support for link-layer ACKs
• Improved stack monitoring and stack overflow triggering
• Improved radiologger: duplicate packets now collapsed
• Improved Timeline handling
• Save radio bitrate in .csc file
• Support for CC1101, CC1120, and ENC28J60 emulation
• MSPsim support for MSP430x instruction set, verified against hardware

Instant Contiki 2.6.1 Available

A new version of Instant Contiki is has just been posted and is available for download below. Heads up: the Instant Contiki download is about 2 Gb large.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/contiki/files/Instant%20Contiki/Instant%20Contiki%202.6.1/

Instant Contiki is an Ubuntu-based virtual machine that takes away the complexity of starting to develop software for Contiki: Instant Contiki contains all the compilers and tools needed for Contiki development in a single file download. No need to install any complex software or tool chains beyond VMWare Player.

This version of Instant Contiki contains the following:

• msp430-gcc 4.7.0 20120322
• avr-gcc (GCC) 4.5.3
• arm-none-eabi-gcc (Sourcery G++ Lite 2008q3-66) 4.3.2
• SDCC : mcs51 3.3.1 #8804 (Aug  6 2013)
• cc65 V2.13.9
• java version 1.7.0_25

How do you install and use Instant Contiki? Read all about it here!

More Contiki-based products posted

Two new Contiki-based products posted today:

• The WigWag home automation system
• The Vibrain smart city solution

See the full list on the Contiki website!

Contiki's Internet of Things: From Badgers to Light Bulbs

What does swans, badgers, data centers, city streets, and light bulbs have in common? Contiki!

One of the coolest things with Contiki is the wide range of systems it is used in. To show this off, we have created a page on the Contiki website to showcase Contiki-based products and systems!

The Internet of Things will be a revolution. It will be everywhere. These Contiki-based systems are some of the early signs of what to expect:

• The Oxford badger tracking system – also used to track swans, hares, and eagles
• The tado° smart thermostat
• The Rad-DX radioactive radiation monitor
• The Zolertia city street noise monitoring system
• ... and many more on the Contiki website!