{"id":92173,"date":"2019-04-18T16:13:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T16:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=432414"},"modified":"2019-04-18T16:13:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T16:13:12","slug":"microsoft-acquires-express-logic-accelerating-iot-development-for-billions-of-devices-at-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/18\/microsoft-acquires-express-logic-accelerating-iot-development-for-billions-of-devices-at-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft acquires Express Logic, accelerating IoT development for billions of devices at scale"},"content":{"rendered":"

IoT sensors are being infused into just about everything, from industrial equipment to consumer devices, and increasingly these devices are connecting to the cloud. By 2020, Gartner<\/a> predicts there will be more than 20 billion connected devices*. In April 2018, we announced<\/a> we\u2019re investing $5 billion in IoT and the intelligent edge over the next four years. Since then<\/a>, we\u2019ve been making a number of investments from product innovation \u2013 including Azure Sphere, Azure Digital Twins, Azure IoT Edge, Azure Maps and Azure IoT Central \u2013 new partnerships with DJI<\/a>, SAP<\/a>, PTC<\/a>, Qualcomm<\/a> and Carnegie Mellon University<\/a> for IoT and edge app development, and programs<\/a> to help drive the next wave of innovation for our customers.<\/p>\n

\"Express<\/a>Today, I am incredibly excited to share we have acquired Express Logic<\/a>, a leader in real time operating systems (RTOS) for IoT and edge devices powered by microcontroller units (MCUs). Express Logic\u2019s ThreadX RTOS has over 6.2 billion deployments, making it one of the most deployed RTOS in the world. This widespread popularity is driven by demand for technology to support resource constrained environments, especially those that require safety and security. Manufacturers building products across a range of categories \u2013 from low capacity sensors like lightbulbs and temperature gauges to air conditioners, medical devices, and network appliances \u2013 leverage the size, safety<\/a> and security<\/a> benefits of Express Logic solutions to achieve faster time to market. Even highly constrained devices (battery powered and having less than 64KB of flash memory) can use Express Logic solutions. Over 9 billion of these MCU-powered devices are built and deployed globally every year, many of which can benefit from Express Logic solutions.<\/p>\n

With this acquisition, we will unlock access to billions of new connected endpoints, grow the number of devices that can seamlessly connect to Azure and enable new intelligent capabilities. Express Logic\u2019s ThreadX RTOS joins Microsoft\u2019s growing support for IoT devices and is complementary with Azure Sphere, our premier security offering in the microcontroller space. Our goal is to make Express Logic\u2019s ThreadX RTOS available as an option for real time processing requirements on an Azure Sphere device and also enable ThreadX-powered devices to connect to Azure IoT Edge devices when the IoT solution calls for edge computing capabilities. While we recommend Azure Sphere for customers\u2019 most secured connections to the cloud, where Azure Sphere isn\u2019t possible in highly constrained devices, we recommend Express Logic\u2019s ThreadX RTOS over other RTOS options in the industry because of its additional certifications and out-of-the-box connectivity to Azure IoT Hub.<\/p>\n

As we\u2019ve stated consistently in the past, our primary goal is to simplify IoT \u2013 from the cloud all the way down to the smallest MCU based devices. We do this by meeting our customers where they are with the right developer tools, software and intelligent cloud services to manage their solutions at scale. Express Logic\u2019s technology and team will be an incredible addition to Microsoft in our quest to give every customer the ability to transform their businesses, and the world at large, with connected solutions.<\/p>\n

*Gartner, Inc., \u201cLeading the IoT: Gartner Insights on how to Lead in a Connected World\u201d, by Mark Hung https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/imagesrv\/books\/iot\/iotEbook_digital.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Tags: Azure IoT Edge<\/a>, Internet of things<\/a>, IoT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IoT sensors are being infused into just about everything, from industrial equipment to consumer devices, and increasingly these devices are connecting to the cloud. By 2020, Gartner predicts there will be more than 20 billion connected devices*. In April 2018, we announced we\u2019re investing $5 billion in IoT and the intelligent edge over the next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[60,50],"class_list":["post-92173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-news","tag-internet-of-things","tag-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}