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Joakim Eriksson edited this page Mar 30, 2017 · 1 revision

Sparrow 1.0

This is the first sparrow release. Sparrow includes a complete implementation of Yanzi's application layer and a set of tools for device discovery, OTA upgrade. Main features in this release:

  • Sparrow Serial Radio - a significantly improved serial radio (compared with the Contiki serial radio) with support for upgrade over serial of the firmware in the serial radio, CRC32 check on the data packets, support for packet attributes, etc.

  • Sparrow Border Router - improved version of the native border router in Contiki that supports the Sparrow Serial Radio and have many new features including full support for the Sparrow protocol so that it can read out lots of data about router and serial radio and also allow upgrade of serial radio via a UDP socket.

  • Sparrow tools - Demo application supporting device discovery, packet sniffing and RSSI scanning (3D) and demo firmwares for Zolertia's Zoul platform. Also tools for making images, doing OTA, etc.

  • Sparrow implementation - a complete implementation of the Sparrow IoT application protocol and the device management parts (OAM).

Future releases will describe in more detail changes from this initial Sparrow version.