Vision

TikuOS is an operating system for microwatt computers: tiny, ubiquitous devices that run for years on a coin cell or indefinitely on harvested energy. It is designed around sub-milliwatt communication primitives — backscatter and tunnel diode transceivers — with IP networking and machine intelligence as integral parts of the OS. The goal is to make sensing, computation, and communication cheap enough in power and cost that intelligent endpoints can be embedded anywhere, maintained by nobody, and left to run indefinitely.

Technology

TikuOS is designed from the ground up for devices that operate on microwatts — not milliwatts, not watts. Where conventional operating systems waste power on heavyweight kernels and periodic interrupts, TikuOS is event-driven, energy-aware, and built for controllers with kilobytes of memory, not megabytes. It natively supports communication technologies that operate below the power floor of conventional wireless — backscatter, tunnel diode transmitters, and other radios that don't exist in any other OS. The result: devices you deploy and forget. For a decade. Or forever.

Origins

TikuOS is the result of a decade of research across three continents, recognized by flagship awards from Google and ABB, supported by national agencies across Asia and Europe, and validated through peer-reviewed publications at the top scientific venues in the field. It is built on hard-won lessons from real hardware, real deployments, and real failures.

Open Source

TikuOS is fully open source, licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Browse the code, report issues, or contribute on GitHub.