MansOS features

MansOS has support for:

• LEDs
  • On Tmote Sky: red, green, and blue
  • On Arduino: just yellow
  • On Waspmote: red and green
  • On SADmote: just red

• Bidirectional serial port communication
  • Sending data to serial port
  • Reading input from serial port

• Reading sensors
  • Light
  • Temperature
  • Humidity
  • Accelerometer and gyroscope
  • Data from a GPS device (NMEA stream)
  • Other sensors using analogue interface (just specify the correct ADC channel)
  • Other sensors using digital I2C interface (write your own driver the particular device you wish to support)

• Hardware access
  • I2C protocol (including several versions of software-I2C protocol)
  • SPI protocol (including software SPI implementation that uses bit-banging)
  • USART port resource arbitration

• Storing data on flash or SD card:
  • Optionally, using a file system

• Radio communication
  • Packet sending
  • Packet receiving
  • Measuring the strength of received radio signal in different channels (in this way, a primitive spectrum analyzer can be built!)
  • Optionally: TinyOS frame format support
  • Optionally: rudimentary 802.15.4 MAC frame format support

• Networking stack
  • Sending data to a specific mote in the network
  • Sending data to all motes in the network
  • Sending data reliably
  • Collecting data from the whole network
  • Synchronizing time in the whole network

• Management
  • Controlling a specific mote by using an application running on computer
  • Controlling whole network of motes at once
  • Reading the address, serial number, sensor data etc.
  • Rebooting the mote, turning LEDs on and off etc.
  • Reprogramming the mote, including over-the-air reprogramming

• Parallel execution
  • Preemptive multitasking
  • Locking (mutual exclusion)
  • Optionally, cooperative multitasking (similar to Contiki protothreads)

• Output to LCD display (HD44780-compatible)

• Low power modes
  • msleep() and usleep() functions will automatically put the sensor device in low power mdoe