The Internet of Things (IoT) is a new stage in the development of the Internet where there are more things connected to it than people. The transition to it happened in 2008-2009, when the number of devices on the network overtook the population of the Earth.
IoT connects the objects around us into a computer network. They exchange information with each other and work without human intervention and in real time. Essentially, this is the Internet taking over the real world.
IoT is not just one, but a whole stack of technologies. This includes the creation of sensors and many protocols for their interaction. Objects can communicate with each other via wi-fi, Bluetooth, LPWAN, BLE, Ethernet, RFID, ZigBee and other types of wireless communications. A special case of the Internet of Things is machine-to-machine communication (M2M).
Our company has unique experience in creating and supporting cloud systems for IoT devices, including those with artificial intelligence, when processing data from devices in real time is required.
We conduct research into the use of various operating systems for IoT devices – from FreeRTOS and Zephyr to Android/Linux. We have developed know-how to optimize Android/Linux requirements for the size of RAM and flash storage, which is extremely important for platforms used in IoT systems.