Getting NesC and TinyOS Ready for Prime Time

NesC provides us with many useful additions to the standard C language. Much of these contributions would be beneficial to embedded systems at large, and not just sensor networks. Many papers talk about sensor networks becoming ubiquitous in the next few years. However, without leveraging existing embedded systems developers, this seems far fetched. There are several problems which must be overcome in both the development focus and tools available before TinyOS, or any future platform, is ready for prime time. We discuss some of these problems, and suggest techniques to address them.