From Stephan Kessler:
Tuesday 24 February 2009 was the first SunSPOT Symposium in central London. It was organized by Dave Cleal and John Daniels (both are from Syntropy (Link: http://www.syntropy.co.uk)). About 30 SunSPOT users and some pioneers met in the building of the British Computer Society.
The morning started with three talks. The first one was from Robert Taylor, he presented the yggdrasil framework (https://yggdrasil.dev.java.net/) for data collection. Bart Braem from the University of Antwerp talked about his “teaching with SunSPOT” experiences, he and his team already made several programming and research projects for the SunSPOTs with students (Website: http://www.pats.ua.ac.be). The last talk was about the KSN RadioStack (http://www.ipd.uka.de/KSN/RadioStack) and was presented by Markus Bestehorn. The KSN RadioStack is communication library for SunSPOTs which provides reliable multihop communication for data intensive applications (slides are available here: http://www.ipd.uni-karlsruhe.de/KSN/publications.html).
The afternoon was all about demonstrations and exchanging ideas. John and Dave offered a session in which they tried to answer all questions everyone had regarding SunSPOTs (they are really brave guys!). The KSN Team presented their (yet to be published, but will be announced at http://www.ipd.uka.de/KSN) over the air management application for SunSPOT testbeds which is capable of node to node software deployment. The guys from the University of Antwerp (Kurt and Daniel) presented a SunSPOT 802.15.4 Packet Sniffer with Wireshark interface and a CTP implementation for SunSPOTs which makes it possible to communicate with sensor nodes using TinyOS (like MicaZ).
At the end we met via Skype video conference with Roger Meike. We talked about the availability of SunSPOTs and the possible integration of software made by other projects in the standard SDK.
It was a great day with much time to exchange ideas and meet. Thanks to John and Dave for organizing this event, it was a pleasure.
