Sun SPOT

The device used the IEEE 802.15.4 standard for its networking, and unlike other available sensor nodes, used the Squawk Java virtual machine.

The management and deployment of application are handled by ant scripts, which can be called from a development environment, command line, or the tool provided with the SPOT SDK, "solarium".

[citation needed] The nodes communicate using the IEEE 802.15.4 standard including the base-station approach to sensor networking.

Sun Labs reported implementations of RSA and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) optimized for small embedded devices.

After some initial experience using "Motes" from Crossbow Technology, a project began under Roger Meike to design an integrated hardware and software system.

[5] Sun sponsored a project at the Art Center College of Design called Autonomous Light Air Vessels in 2005.

The entire project, hardware, operating environment, Java virtual machine, drivers and applications, was available as open source in January 2008.