
Cisco and a group of leading tech companies
have formed an industry alliance that promotes the Internet Protocol (IP) for interconnecting millions of embedded devices such as thermometers and light switches, forming an
"Internet of Things". Many OSNews readers should be familiar with the
technical basis of the alliance: embedded open source developer
Adam Dunkels' lightweight
uIP TCP/IP stack from the
Contiki operating system. Nice to see that open source OSes besides Linux and BSD also have a major impact on the technology industry.