How do you develop and sustain an operating system primed for the continuously evolving nature of the internet of things? You model it, in part, on the highly successful Linux platform, which is exactly the tactic of the Zephyr Project, an open, real-time operating system overseen by the nonprofit Linux Foundation along with a variety of other big-name industry players.
The Zephyr Project, which celebrated its one-year anniversary in February 2017, is a modular, scalable platform designed for connected, resource-strained devices. The open source RTOS — which, in fact, includes no Linux code, but rather is based on the Wind River Rocket IoT OS technology acquired by Intel — is able to integrate with myriad third-party libraries and embedded devices, regardless of architecture, and was built with security in mind, according to project members.
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