Technology is at the root of all answers (just joking). Anyway, submitting
the first phrase of Henr's description of the device: "event based operating
environment designed for use with embedded networked sensors" to google
brought 1610 matches. The first is: http://tinyos.millennium.berkeley.edu/.
On this page you can find the following:
TinyOS Project Overview
TinyOS is an event based operating environment designed for use with
embedded networked sensors. It is designed to support the concurrency
intensive operations required by networked sensors with minimal hardware
requirements.
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