Contiki, a little-known open-source system, tells you who is the pioneer of the internet of things.

If you know something about the operating system, you've heard of Windows,os X or even Linux, but you may not have heard of Contiki. Contiki is attracting more and more people's attention today, when the internet of things becomes a big hit.

Contiki is a lightweight operating system. As an open source system, it provides a platform for developers and entrepreneurs to develop a widget or gadget that is responsible for http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/18415.html "> Network connections on the Internet. Instead of building the underlying operating system that gadgets need. For nearly a decade, it has been favored by hackers, academics, and companies that make sensors and trackers.

Developers like it because it's lightweight, free, and mature. About five years ago, the Andrew Markham team at Oxford University did an interesting thing by using Contiki to invent a wireless network tracking system that could be run underground for Badger Behavior research that solves the problem of GPs not working properly underground.

The biggest advantage of Contiki is that it's small. Linux requires at least 1MB of RAM at runtime, and Contiki can be done in just a few kilobytes. Its creator, Adam Dunkels, managed to integrate an entire operating system including a graphical user interface, network software, and a Web browser into only 30KB of storage space, making it less stressful to run on small, low-power chips on the internet of things.

After more than 10 years of development, Contiki has started to commercial applications, many consumer technology companies began to work with Contiki, such as smart light bulb LIFX, as well as nest competitor Tado. Dunkels that the Internet is a large market, the direction is too much, in the industrial and building automation and other fields have great application prospects.

In an effort to support Contiki's fast-growing business applications, Dunkels has left his university research work to set up Thingsquare, a start-up that is dedicated to providing background support for Contiki devices in the cloud. The goal is to make it easier for developers to connect their hardware devices to smartphones and networks.

Contiki will soon face competition from Microsoft, which recently released the Internet version of Windows (Windows for the "Things"). But Microsoft's new system is not open source, only 9-inch devices free of charge, and Contiki has a 11-year leading edge.

In the environment of Internet of things, a good development system is necessary, I believe that more people will join in the competition in the future. Contiki already has its leading edge, its competitors are strong, who is the future of the world? We wait and see.

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