Architecture, board and driver support

It supports various architectures like MSP430 ARM7 Cortex-M0, M3 and M4 x86, etc It also supports the native port, where one can simulate the output within the OS it is running. So RIOT is supported in Linux as well as OS X.

There are in-built drivers for the following sensors (without the need for hardware, these sensors can be modelled in native mode also): Radio receivers Environmental sensors for humidity, temperature, pressure, alcohol, gas, etc Accelerometers Gyroscopes Ultrasonic sensors, light and servo motors Most of the sensor boards like TelosB, ST, Zolertia, MSP 430, Arduino and Atmel have support from this OS (and the list is quite long). RIOT also supports virtualisation, where the code and application can run as a simple UNIX process. It also uses Wireshark for packet sniffing.