Joe Polastre: June 2008 Archives

Today Sentilla announced that our software platform is now generally available and being put into production with our customers. We started by announcing Sentilla's new vision for computing in October 2007. Sentilla engaged with a number of incredible beta customers that were courageous enough to start building their applications on the first versions of our software. In May, Sentilla released Perk, our demonstration kit, to attendees of JavaOne. The JavaOne developers have been active and building interesting pervasive applications for almost two months. Sentilla is now opening this software environment, both demonstration and professional versions, to the world.

Throughout this process, Sentilla has put together the world's only Java-compliant platform for embedded 8-bit and 16-bit microcontrollers. That's a huge accomplishment, and now lots of applications are possible -- AND they don't require a PhD from UC Berkeley to develop, deploy, and integrate. This is tremendously important because customer can leverage the volume of embedded processors as well as their low power characteristics (most 8-bit and 16-bit systems can last over 10 times longer than a similarly equipped 32-bit system!).

While we're the only company that provides a Java-powered platform for pervasive computing, Sentilla also wants the rest of the world to be able to afford and build their pervasive computing ideas. For this reason, we announced two kits today -- Perk, our demonstration kit that allows developers to build small-scale proof of concepts, and the Sentilla Development Kit, our professional kit that provides all of the functionality needed to deploy pervasive solutions at scale. This includes lots of low power options, a full server environment, and a path to production by OEMs and System Integrators. Check out the differences between the kits.

For those that can't wait to get started, the Perk kit is available for just $199. It includes 2 pervasive computers, a gateway, and the development environment to get up and running. More information here. You also get access to the Sentilla developer community, which now has over 170 members.

Purchase Perk online or contact Sentilla's sales team to purchase the Sentilla Development Kit for commercial users.