Wireless sensor networks and the Internet of Things: IBM and Libelium, released an Internet of Things Starter Kit.

Available since yesterday, the goal here is to allow every single sensor and device to connect directly to the Internet using the new IPv6 protocol. This means: ease application development, testing, and scalability of wireless sensor networks (WSN).

Connectikpeople may recall that, the new Internet of Things Starter Kit integrates Libelium’s Waspmote wireless sensor platform with IBM’s Mote Runner software and 6LoWPAN, which allows every single sensor and device to connect directly to the

Internet using the new IPv6 protocol.

For those who unfamiliar, IBM Mote Runner is an open software development platform that connects sensor and actuator motes within wireless sensor networks based on the IETF 6LoWPAN protocol specification.

Henceforth with the new Internet of Things Starter Kit, a real-time operating system is integrated in Libelium Waspmote nodes to support more than 60 different sensors available allowing developers to easily build any application on top.

Connectikpeople has also observed that, the Internet of Things SDK also includes the source code of the 6LoWPAN libraries so that researchers can modify and add their own algorithms and improvements.