This document discusses sensor network deployment and the Sun SPOT platform. It introduces the Sensor Network Analyzer (SNA) which helps address challenges in wireless sensor network deployment like planning, commissioning, monitoring and managing networks. The SNA provides protocol analysis, network visualization, and performance measurement. It also supports commissioning tasks. The document then discusses the Sun SPOT platform, a programmable sensor node that runs Java and supports wireless communication and sensing. Several applications built with Sun SPOT are presented, followed by a simple tutorial on getting sensor data from a Sun SPOT.