International audienceFormal verification is still rarely applied to the IoT (InternetofThings)software, whereas IoT applications tend to become increasingly popular and critical.This short paper promotes the usage of formal verification to ensure safetyand security of software in this domain. We present a successful case study ondeductive verification of a memory allocation module of Contiki, a popular open-source operating system for IoT. We present the target module, describe how thecode has been specified and proven using Frama-C, a software analysis platformfor C code, and discuss lessons learned
