Zephyr Developer Summit 2022

Zephyr is built for the IoT age. The hard, custom work of standing up network support on an embedded device has become a manageable problem. This talk will survey how Zephyr’s approach benefits hardware vendors, protocol designers, and application developers. I will make a case to people outside of the Zephyr ecosystem on why they should adopt the platform and contrast the difficulties to other RTOS solutions. These networking concepts are so baked-in that it fundamentally changes the cost for anyone buying into the ecosystem. From vendors adding modems to developers building apps, the underlying framework saves time and engineering complexity. The talk will include analysis of what a good C developer needs to go through to securely connect a sensor to the internet, covering IP and network management, the networking stack, the device driver model, and the drivers themselves.