Sun SPOT (Sun Small Programmable Object Technology) is a wireless sensor network (WSN) mote developed by Sun Microsystems. The device is built upon the IEEE 802.15.4 standard. Unlike other available mote systems, the Sun SPOT is built on the Squawk Java Virtual Machine.
Note: After the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle, SunSPOT platform has been supported for some time by Oracle but currently it is no more: the forum has been down for maintenance and declared it would be up again in June. At the moment (10 September 2012) it is still down. Source code is no longer available.
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