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I will be participating and talking about pervasive computing at the Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days conference at the Sun campus in Santa Clara, CA. The conference takes place on January 23rd and 24th. On the first day, the 23rd, are a slew of talks from our friends in Sun Labs working on Sun SPOTS, followed by a half hour technical discussion of the commercial use of Java in embedded pervasive applications by Sentilla.

As mentioned in a previous post, the last couple of months have been filled with tons of developers talking to me about their ideas for pervasive applications. Sentilla has been busy building applications for large industrial customers, working to increase efficiency and decrease costs. But every once in a while, we come up for air and build some fun pervasive applications that we deploy in our world headquarters. With all of these applications, most with only a few lines of code, I started wondering: where should we put them?

I had the pleasure of receiving the Duke Award tonight for Sentilla. The Duke Award is given by James Gosling, the father of Java, and is the biggest award that a company can receive. The Duke Award is the only award given out at JavaOne, a conference with hundreds of exhibitors and over 15,000 attendees. The Duke Award goes to Sentilla!

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.

What do 15,000 Java developers have in common? Besides a love of object-oriented programming languages and an oddly-shaped mascot named Duke, Java developers act en masse. How do we know? Sentilla was commissioned by Sun Microsystems to instrument the Moscone Center in San Francisco with over 200 pervasive computers during the 2008 JavaOne conference. Sun wanted to have greater insight into the behavior of attendees during the conference so that organizers could adjust energy-usage in real-time and better plan for future events. Each morning, John Gage presented Sentilla's findings.