Linux Foundation Zephyr Project Attracts IoT Developers and Tech Giants

The Linux Foundation has always been committed to welcoming companies and organizations of all sizes as part of its heritage and ongoing vision for opening technology for all to experiment with and to build things. The Zephyr Project, an open source project to build a real-time operating system (RTOS) for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced last week they grew their community of contributors with support for more than 100 developer boards and the addition of six new members. These industry and academic leaders include Antmicro, DeviceTone, SiFive, the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, The Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) and Northeastern University. Its not easy to build an open operating system (OS), and it is not easy to compete for the attention of developers, particularly in the increasingly fragmented IoT and Industrial IoT domains, where there are nearly 500 different platforms, thousands of different companies, hundreds of different protocols, approaches and frameworks – but Zephyr clearly focused their mission on solving for specific challenges including standards and scale for systems.