"The Sun Small Programmable Object Technology (Sun SPOT): Java™ Technology-Based Wireless Sensor Networks"

The Sun Small Programmable Object Technology (Sun SPOT) is a small wireless sensor that runs a version of Java™ technology called Squawk that is compliant with the Java ME platform.

The Sun SPOT platform, developed at Sun Labs, is a small, battery-powered wireless device with an application development environment based on the Java programming language. The Sun SPOT, smaller than a deck of cards, comes equipped with a 32-bit ARM processor and an IEEE 802.15.4 radio for wireless communication. Stackable boards include sensors and actuators such as accelerometers, light detectors, temperature sensors, LEDs, push buttons, and general I/O pins. The devices can be duty-cycled to run for months on a single charge of their rechargeable battery. The small-footprint Java virtual machine, called Squawk, can host multiple applications concurrently and requires no underlying operating system. The full platform includes tools for programming, deploying, configuring, monitoring, and debugging the Sun SPOT network. Join this session and learn all you need to know about Sun SPOT and enjoy the demos.

This session is a more advanced an indepth session as the keynote at J-Fall 2005 

Angela M. Caicedo  Sun Microsystems is a Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems who specializes in Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) platform technologies. She graduated from the University EAFIT of Medellin Colombia in 1998 with a B.S. in Computer Science. During 1996-1997 Angela was a visitor student at Center for Educational Computing Initiatives at MIT. Prior to joining Sun, Angela worked for three years as a software developer and researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), in Lausanne Switzerland. Angela did research at Agent Technologies, and in 1999 she made a specialization in Intelligent Agents.