Contiki
Sign in to saveContiki is an operating system for networked, memory-constrained systems with a focus on low-power wireless Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Contiki is used for systems for street lighting, sound monitoring for smart cities, radiation monitoring and alarms. It is open-source software released under the BSD-3-Clause license.
Key facts
- OS.name
- Contiki
- OS.screenshot
- Contiki-ipv6-rpl-cooja-simulation.png
- OS.caption
- Screenshot of an Ubuntu system showing Contiki 2.6 running on 41 nodes forming an IPv6-RPL-6LoWPAN network in the Cooja Contiki network simulator.
- OS.developer
- Adam Dunkels
- OS.source model
- Open source
- OS.latest release version
- 3.0
- OS.license
- BSD-3-Clause
- OS.discontinued
- yes
- Software.name
- Contiki-NG
- Software.latest release version
- 5.0
- Software.discontinued
- no
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14 sectionsContents
- Hardware
- Networking
- Low-power operation
- Simulation
- Programming model
- Features
- Ports
- Microcontrollers
- Computers
- Game consoles
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Contiki is an operating system for networked, memory-constrained systems with a focus on low-power wireless Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Contiki is used for systems for street lighting, sound monitoring for smart cities, radiation monitoring and alarms. It is open-source software released under the BSD-3-Clause license.
Contiki was created by Adam Dunkels in 2002 and has been further developed by a worldwide team of developers from Texas Instruments, Atmel, Cisco, ENEA, ETH Zurich, Redwire, RWTH Aachen University, Oxford University, SAP, Sensinode, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, ST Microelectronics, Zolertia, and many others. Contiki gained popularity because of its built in TCP/IP stack and lightweight preemptive scheduling over event-driven kernel which is a very motivating feature for IoT. The name Contiki comes from Thor Heyerdahl's famous Kon-Tiki raft.