platform sky

This platform is Contiki's historical default platform. It is still in Contiki-NG and mostly for emulation purposes with MSPSim in Cooja.

Baloo is available for the Sky mote, but simulation of Baloo programs in Cooja is not yet operational (see the WiP page).

Key features

• 250kbps 2.4GHz IEEE 802.15.4 Chipcon Wireless Transceiver
• 8MHz Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontroller (10k RAM, 48k Flash)
• Integrated ADC, DAC, Supply Voltage Supervisor, and DMA Controller
• Integrated onboard antenna with 50m range indoors / 125m range outdoors
• Integrated Humidity, Temperature, and Light sensors
• Hardware link-layer encryption and authentication
• USB interface

The platform datasheet is available at https://www.snm.ethz.ch/snmwiki/pub/uploads/Projects/tmote_sky_datasheet.pdf

Supported primitives

• Glossy
• Chaos
• Strobing