Industrial Automation Magazine India

RIOT OS

Published on : Tuesday 30-11--0001

The friendly Operating System for the Internet of Things. RIOT powers the Internet of Things like Linux powers the Internet. RIOT is a free, open source operating system developed by a grassroots community gathering companies, academia, and hobbyists, distributed all around the world.

RIOT implements all relevant open standards supporting an Internet of Things that is connected, secure, durable, and privacy-friendly.

Functionality     

RIOT is a developer friendly program like you are used to. Do not waste time with complex or new environments.

• Standard programming in C or C++

• Standard tools such as gcc, gdb, valgrind

• Minimized hardware dependent code

• Zero learning curve for embedded programming

• Code once, run on 8-bit platforms (e.g. Arduino Mega 2560), 16-bit platforms (e.g. MSP430), and on 32-bit platforms (e.g. ARM)

• Partial POSIX compliance. Towards full POSIX compliance.

• Develop under Linux or Mac OS using the native port, deploy on embedded device

RIOT is Resource Friendly

Benefit from a microkernel architecture and a tickless scheduler on very lightweight devices.

• Robustness & code-footprint flexibility

• Enabling maximum energy-efficiency

• Real-time capability due to ultra-low interrupt latency (~50 clock cycles) and priority-based scheduling

• Multi-threading with ultra-low threading overhead (<25 bytes per thread)

RIOT is IoT Friendly

Make your applications ready for the smaller things in the Internet with common system support.

• 6LoWPAN, IPv6, RPL, and UDP

• CoAP and CBOR

• Static and dynamic memory allocation

• High resolution and long-term timers

• Tools and utilities (System shell, SHA-256, Bloom filters, ...)

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