The G2 on TinyOS

UH

Verified User in Higher Education

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/7/2020

"Operating system for wireless sensor networks"

3.5/5

What do you like best about TinyOS?

The power tossim simulator that offers an accurate emulator for power consumption for selected hardware platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about TinyOS?

It is not supported by a broad open source community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering TinyOS:

A well maintained and advanced alternatives to Tiny OS is Riot-OS. It support a much broader number of hardware platform and there is a open-source community that supports the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is TinyOS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Development of communication protocols for wireless sensor networks. The ability to emulate using tossim the developed software in a very simple way is a definite plus. Also the tool power-tosssim provides accurate estimations of the power consumption of the protocol for selected hardware platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AM

AMARLINGAM M.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/13/2020

"It was very usefull to develop lot of projects using IITH Mote"

5/5

What do you like best about TinyOS?

It requires very low on-chip memory for dumping the code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about TinyOS?

NesC scripting is little difficult to understand, but once any one gets hands on they enjoy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JK

Jalal k.

IT Project Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/13/2021

"Researcher and developer of a wireless sensor security protocol"

4/5

What do you like best about TinyOS?

It is modular and any one with basic knowledge of C can use it without any effort Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about TinyOS?

Resource material is not widely available and you struggle to find TinyOS community Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PR

Pradeepa R.

Subject Matter Expert - Automation

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/2/2020

"TinyOS for WSN"

4/5

What do you like best about TinyOS?

Easy and light weight coding environment designed for low power wireless devices. Component based programming language easy to deploy with the motes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about TinyOS?

Not support all kind of devices. limited devices only can deploy via TinyOS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PK

Pavan K.

Module Lead

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/21/2020

"Best architected RTOS for WSN"

5/5

What do you like best about TinyOS?

Its architecture is comprised of 3 layers HIL, HAL and HPL that enables a developers to design and develop software modules effficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about TinyOS?

Cant be used for complex application as it lacks effective memory management and multitasking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UR

Verified User in Research

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/1/2021

"Overall good experience, nice idea with wiring and support for multiple devices"

3/5

What do you like best about TinyOS?

Overall idea and environment idea is great. Love the nesc idea of wiring, this makes the system easier to connect big components while maintaining the low level of access with c Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about TinyOS?

Debugging might be hard or at least not well documented. More project examples could be created as documentation for quick start. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UR

Verified User in Research

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/4/2020

"Easy to use open source platform with lots of community help"

3.5/5

What do you like best about TinyOS?

Open source code.

Extensive Online support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about TinyOS?

Not much provided on hardware limitation for Mica2 on tinyOS platform

Documentation on Initial Setup and troubleshooting for platform setup is scarce. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is TinyOS solving and how is that benefiting you?

providing a current implementation of the flooding time synchronization protocol on hardware that is available and a platform that can support that. The problem was the ability to recreate the same results the author of the protocol had gotten in this day and age with the current hardware and software that we have available to us Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CH

Christian H.

Software Product Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/2/2020

"Developing Wireless Network Sensor with TinyOS was easy and useful"

3/5

What do you like best about TinyOS?

Developing with TinyOS is very simple and flexible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about TinyOS?

As many other codes it has some limitations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CE

Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/9/2021

"I love TinyOS"

5/5

What do you like best about TinyOS?

The small TinyOS foot print is very efficient and very suitable for mass deployment of sensors and IoT devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about TinyOS?

For the type of mass deployment application, the small footprint and efficient code execution TinyOS is most suited. So there was nothing to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CI

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/19/2021

"Useful for embedded simulations"

4/5

What do you like best about TinyOS?

The os is easy to use and learn. Implementing functionalities on go is straightforward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about TinyOS?

Too much dependencies to set it up. Perhaps could be bundled in one package Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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