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.
