New job for 2012: After 9 years at Lancaster I'm now at the University of St Andrews, having taken a Research Fellow position here to work with Al Dearle and Simon Dobson on the foundations of WSN systems. St Andrews is one of the oldest universities in… more »

So the final review meeting of the WISEBED project that I worked on was yesterday, marking the end of a highly successful three year research project that has seen the development of WSN testbeds around EUrope and has supported the birth of a number of n… more »

Some thoughts of an OS developer on MAC protocols for WSNs. The basic tradeoff of a MAC protocol is energy versus latency & throughput, where channel contention plays a major part in how a MAC protocol behaves. In Lorien you can cheaply switch the MA… more »

Was at a project meeting for a new EU research project last week in Santander. This place is going to be instrumented with thousands of wireless sensor devices to create a smart city with lots of cool services for its citizens. Neat stuff, and very ambit… more »

The Lorien Wireless Sensor Network OS that I work on has just reached version 2.0, now available on sourceforge. This involved significant reworking of its core systems to include a complete reconfiguration safety plane. Lorien is a pure dynamic co… more »