After 24 months in the making, I'm extremely excited about the launch of Sentilla.  Over the years since we founded Moteiv in 2003 (which is now, officially, Sentilla), we have interacted with over 1,000 customers in over 40 countries.  All of these customers shared the same desire -- to push their businesses further and further towards the edge, interacting with the real world.  In order to realize those great ideas, we knew that we had to make it easy for customers to build applications quickly.

Enter Java.  For years, Cory, Rob, and I (Sentilla's co-founders) were told that Java technology was simply not feasible on a "mote" -- a 16-bit microcontroller with only a few kilobytes of RAM and a low power wireless radio.  Luckily, we didn't listen to them, and 24 months later, we have a full Java environment allowing customers to develop, deploy, integrate and manage pervasive computing applications.

Pervasive computing is all about making the real world smart.  Instead of treating devices as dumb sensors with a network attached to it, we saw small embedded computers.  Over the last 30 years, computers have revolutionized our lives, from servers to laptops to cell phones.  Now computers are revolutionizing our world, integrated into everything around us that we rarely even notice.  Most people don't even realize that over 10 billion (with a 'b') microcontrollers are shipped each year, an order of magnitude more than cell phones.

To sum up, we're extremely excited about leading this new wave of pervasive computing.  We can now build applications almost instantaneously that took months, if not years, before.  And to top it all off, we have content that we never had before.  So here's to beer coasters with pervasive computers, automatically telling the bartender when I need another drink.  What ideas do you have?

Some logistical items: Sentilla is now more community based, and we'll be releasing more and more community features to allow people to interact, share ideas and code, and create applications.  We've also started by enabling comments in our blog, so feel free to post away.

For those of you that are customers of Moteiv's Tmote hardware line, we do have information about how we are phasing out those products.  To best serve you, please view of our end-of-life notice.