This is January 2025 issue of monthly e-mail magazine of TRON Forum.

Happy New Year. Thank you for your continuing support for TRON Project and best wishes to all of you for the new year.

The year 2024 marked the 40th anniversary of TRON Project since its inception in 1984. In that memorable year, we had the honor of “The Pioneering TRON Intelligent House, 1989” being recognized as an IEEE Milestone. This achievement of TRON Project has been recognized as an IEEE Milestone, which TRON Project received for two consecutive years following the year 2023's "TRON Real-time Operating System Family, 1984." The project's approaches, both from the bottom-up infrastructure technology and top-down application requirements have been highly evaluated. The TRON Intelligent House, built in 1989, was an experimental house that pursued energy saving and comfort by implementing a comprehensive home equipment control system using computers, which was a groundbreaking development 35 years ago. I am very proud that its historical value has been recognized internationally. Last fall, I was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, in recognition of my many years of research contributions to computer science in Japan. I would like to express my sincere gratitude for your warm support over the years.

Last December, we moved the venue of the annual TRON Symposium to Shibuya PARCO DG Building in Shibuya City, Tokyo, and renewed the exhibition format, focusing on presentations in seminar style, using the hybrid symposium as baseline. In addition, TRON Forum held the "TRON Programming Contest" in collaboration with four major microcomputer manufacturers in 2024. The 2nd TRON Programming Contest will be held this year. In the past, many embedded systems were developed as products that operated independently, but now that we have entered the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), where all kinds of devices are connected to networks, embedded system engineers are required to have new skills. Through this contest, we would like to support embedded system engineers to update their skills and hope to expand the new possibilities of the IoT.

Thus, the approaches of TRON Project have the potential to address today's social issues. Due to last year's “hottest summer in recorded history,” even in Japan, where there has been less concern about climate change than in Europe and the United States, people are becoming more aware of the threat of climate change. The 2023 TRON Symposium looked at the deployment from digital transformation (DX) to green transformation (GX), and was held under the theme of “DX2GX." And the theme for last year's TRON Symposium was "AI X TRON." Due to the rapid advances of AI, there are concerns about an increase in energy consumption in data centers. However, if an ideal combination of the popularization of the IoT technology and the progress of AI can be achieved, it could be the key to maintaining a comfortable lifestyle while also making the global environment sustainable.

In order to meet the demands of the current era, we will continue to work on further technological innovation, making use of our 40 years of experience and achievements. TRON Project will continue to strive to contribute to society in terms of both infrastructure and applied technologies. Thank you all for your continuing support.

Ken Sakamura

Thank you to those who came to the 2024 TRON Symposium  ̶ TRONSHOW "AI X TRON."

2024 TRON Symposium -TRONSHOW-
https://www.tronshow.org/index-e.html

"TRON Programming Contest Awards Ceremony" was held during the TRON Symposium (TRONSHOW).

The entry deadline for the “Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation 2024  ̶ powered by Project LINKS” is Friday, January 17.

T-Kernel seminar

Share Your T-Kernel and ITRON Specification OS Stories

https://www.tron.org/ja/tron-project/provide-the-use-case/

Happy New Year. Thank you for your continuing support for TRON Project and best wishes to all of you for the new year.

"2022 TRON Symposium — TRONSHOW" was held from Wednesday, December 7 to Friday, December 9, 2022 to disseminate the result of the activities of TRON Project for the past year. Once again, we are delighted that we could hold a hybrid of real and online events. The catchphrase for the last year's TRONSHOW was "Next Generation Infrastructure." The theme was what the next step in the information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure would be after rebooting the platform as the catchphrase of the TRONSHOW two years ago was "Rebooting."

As part of the next step, "all-photonics communication paths," an innovation at the level of the basic technology is what TRON Project considers important. IOWN Project aims at "all-photonics communication paths." It predicts that the next generation all-photonics networks will have 125 times the bandwidth, 1/100 times the consumed power, and 1/200 times the latency of the current network technology. TRONSHOW introduced IOWN in detail during the keynote speech, special session and technology session.

The ultra-low latency of all-photonics network makes it possible to perform surgery remotely by a surgeon in a place 100 kilometers away as if the doctor were in the next room. An e-sports game that connects multiple players in distant locations can be played without any handicap due to the distance between the server and the players, giving equal response latency to players. Thus, the infrastructure that is based on the all-photonics network will introduce innovation to the architecture of real-time embedded systems to which TRON Project pays special attention. For this reason, TRON Forum will deepen collaboration with IOWN Global Forum which promotes IOWN by setting up working groups to liaise with the forum and other measures.

The year 2022 saw the future where AI would change the world being very close to realization. So, the data collection for AI will be performed in the "Open Smart UR," IoT future housing project by installing 100 sensors in the 39 square meter floor space of "Living Monitoring Residences," an experimental housing that can be actually lived. TRONSHOW introduced this in detail during the keynote speech, display by the organizer and theater session on the second day.

On the last day of the TRONSHOW, The Association for Open Data of Public Transportation (ODPT) in which I serve as chair signed an MOU for strategic partnership with Mobility Data, an NPO with its activity centers in Canada and France. Mobility Data promotes standardization of public transportation data such as GTFS and GBFS. Public Transportation Open Data Center operated by ODPT has released data that uses GTFS format, and many maps and navigation applications such as Google map have used it. ODPT will commit itself to the support of public transportation open data and its standardization more after this MOU signing.

Also, during the TRONSHOW, the opening of "Open Data Challenge for Smart Logistics by Daiwa House Industry" was announced. The contest with prize money of five million yen in total will be held in cooperation with Hitachi Transport System, Ltd. to make the vital data of truck drivers and dashboard camera data available as open data. The contestants vie to come up with effective use of such data. We look forward to your participation.

TRON Project started in 1984. It will celebrate its 40th anniversary next year. Last year there was very good news for me and the project. I am delighted to report that I will receive Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Masaru Ibuka Consumer Technology Award in 2023. The prize will be given to me “For leadership in creating open and free operating systems for embedded computers used in consumer electronics." This is a very favorable evaluation of the TRON Project activity. I feel this award is also given to the members and other parties who have supported the project over the years. I truly appreciate every person who contributed to the project.

I would like to continue the project to make sure we can create a better world which will be built on top the new platform of the future. Thank you all for your continuing support of TRON Project this year.

Ken Sakamura

Thank you to those who came to the "2022 TRON Symposium ― TRONSHOW ― Next Generation Infrastructure"

2022 TRON Symposium (TRONSHOW) was held with "Next Generation Infrastructure" as its theme at Tokyo Midtown Hall (Roppongi, Tokyo) from Wednesday, December 7 to Friday, December 9 with the technological co-sponsorship of IEEE Consumer Technology Society.

Once again, we held a hybrid of real event in Tokyo Midtown and online event.

Many presentation sessions were held over the three days including the keynote on the first day, "Next Generation Infrastructure, ― 2022 TRON Project and the Future Outlook," by TRON Project leader, Ken Sakamura, Dean of Information Networking for Innovation And Design (INIAD), Toyo University.

In the real venue, visitors could see or attend the displays related to IoT-Engine, embedded systems OS such as T-Kernel and ITRON Specification OS, displays and sessions related to IOWN, all-photonics network technology to build the next generation infrastructure which was the theme of the last year’s symposium, products and services that use uID and open data, and the session for "Smart Logistics Open Data Challenge by Daiwa House Industry" that uses open data.

2022 TRON Symposium -- TRONSHOW
https://www.tronshow.org/

Thank you for your continuing support for TRON Project and best wishes to all of you for the new year.

This is January 2022 issue of monthly TRON Forum e-mail magazine.

It is my pleasure to report that 2021 TRON Symposium (TRONSHOW) was held successfully in a hybrid manner: there were both real and virtual symposiums and exhibits. The theme of 2021 TRON Symposium and this year’s is “Rebooting.”

How can we "Reboot" the society which has been disempowered in many ways due to Covid-19, and establish New Normal, new ways of thinking and behavior different from the past ways through digital means? Each subproject in TRON Project has been working on element technology to facilitate the Rebooting.

TRON Project has been aiming at the realization of Highly Functionally Distributed System (HFDS) where any objects will have computers embedded and collaborate with each other to offer convenience and realize comfortable society ─ this approach is recently called Aggregate Computing model and enhanced by incorporating service collaboration.

2021 TRON Symposium (TRONSHOW) introduced the latest version of IoT-Engine, elemental technology of Aggregate Computing, Board Support Package (BSP) of “μT-Kernel 3.0,” an embedded RTOS that operates on IoT-Engine, and other latest results of element technology. The symposium also presented the activities of “Open Smart UR Study Group” which I have been leading as Chair and which has been established by collaborative Hub for University and Business (cHUB), Faculty of Information Networking for Innovation And Design (INIAD), Toyo University and Urban Renaissance Agency (UR) as an effort to realize service collaboration in housing sector.

The Awards Ceremony of “the 4th Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation in Tokyo” was held on the last day of the symposium as the activity output of “Association for Open Data of Public Transportation (ODPT,  Chair: Ken Sakamura).” Since the commercial usage of the provided data was allowed this time, private enterprises including Google Maps and others participated in the challenge. In addition, TIVAC, an activity to introduce IoT-related security vulnerability information, and “Open IoT Education Program” led by INIAD as recurrent education for working engineers were introduced in 2021 TRON Symposium (TRONSHOW).

This year marks the 20th anniversary of TRON Forum, which was established as "T-Engine Forum" originally in 2002, taking over the activities of TRON Association in 2010. As introduced in the symposium session, TRON OS has been used to control space satellites and rockets, as well as for various control devices, communication terminals, printers, digital cameras, and many other products around you to support social infrastructure without stopping them, or stopping them quickly and reliably when they need to be stopped.

Unfortunately, the COVID-19 still affects us significantly and we need to be very careful every day. On the other hand, it is also true that social activities are gradually being rebooted by the power of digital technology. I appreciate that the activity results of TRON Project have been used as the basis for Rebooting thanks to the efforts of everyone involved in the project.

Thank you in advance again for your contribution to TRON Project in 2022.

Ken Sakamura

We would like to thank many of you who visited “2021 TRON Symposium —TRONSHOW — Rebooting."

2021 TRON Symposium (TRONSHOW) was held at Tokyo Midtown Hall in Roppongi, Tokyo from Wednesday, December 8 to Friday, December 10, 2021 with the technical co-sponsorship of IEEE Consumer Technology Society (U.S.A.). The theme of the symposium this time was “Rebooting.”

It was held as hybrid exhibition as an opportunity to practice “Digital Transformation”(DX) where real venue and the online/virtual venue meet each other.

Starting from “Rebooting ― 2021 TRON Project and the Future Outlook,” the keynote speech by Chair Sakamura, many sessions were held for three days. The video streaming was available online for those who registered as visitors to view even after the symposium was over at the real venue.

IoT-Engine, embedded OS such as T-Kernel and ITRON specification OS and their use cases, and the products and services related to uID architecture and open data were exhibited by exhibitors at the real venue.

On the last day of the symposium, the Awards Ceremony of the " 4th Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation in Tokyo," a contest held by the Association for Open Data of Public Transportation, which consists of transportation companies such as railroad, bus, airline, and ferry operators, as well as ICT stakeholders, was held at the symposium venue. The winners were invited to talk about their motivations for the application development, and awards were given.

2021 TRON Symposium – TRONSHOW –
https://www.tronshow.org/

Personal Media Corporation has released "PMC T-Kernel 3.0" that complies with both μT-Kernel 3.0 and IEEE 2050-2018 specifications.

Personal Media, a member of the Executive Committee of TRON Forum, announced on December 7, 2021 that it has successfully developed "PMC T-Kernel 3.0," a multi-core compliant real-time OS that supports two specifications, "μT-Kernel 3.0" and "IEEE 2050-2018.”

Personal Media will start taking orders from device manufacturers on January 5, 2022. It will also start selling "PMC T-Kernel 3.0 Evaluation Kit" that operates on a commercial evaluation board for development and evaluation on March 1, 2022.

For the details on this product, please visit the following website.

Personal Media Corporation
http://www.t-engine4u.com/press/pmctk3.html

This is January 2021 edition of monthly mail magazine of TRON Forum.

It is my pleasure to report that 2020 TRON Symposium (TRONSHOW) was held successfully in a hybrid manner: there were both real and virtual symposiums and exhibits. The theme of 2020 TRON Symposium and this year’s is “New Normal”. What can ICT offer to Covid-19 outbreak? How do society and education system need to change to cope with it? What type of technologies would be useful? There were many interesting speeches and panels, and many watched them via the Internet.

Another good news is that µT-Kernel 3.0, an evolutionary next step of IEEE 2050-2018 has been released, too. Many people have already accessed and used the source code that has been released from GitHub as well as TRON Forum website. Last December, TRON OS family controlled the space probe, Hayabusa 2, successfully to bring back the asteroid sample to the earth without the serious problems the first Hayabusa experienced.

Association for Open Data of Public Transportation, where I serve as chair, has been proceeding to publish open data based on the raw data from public transportation operators such as railway, bus, airline and ferry. The usage of the open data has steadily increased, and popular and influential services such as Google have begun to use it.

The total number of “visitors” to 2020 TRON Symposium was larger than before due to the hybrid symposiums. There were now virtual visitors on top of real visitors. This is another manifestation of “New Normal”. The DX in Japan, which faced much opposition due to precedence, is now going forward by leaps and bounds.: remote working, online medical consultation, decreasing the use of seals and paper-based forms, lessening the requirement of face-to-face consultation at government agencies, wider use of Individual Number card, etc.

Right now, we have been going through many difficulties and some tragedies even. However, I wish that we can reverse the tide somehow and can say “Happy New Normal” in 2021.

Thank you all for your continuing support of TRON Project in 2021.

Ken Sakamura

Thank you for coming to or viewing "2020 TRON Symposium-TRONSHOW- New Normal".

"2020 TRON Symposium - TRONSHOW - New Normal" was held at Tokyo Midtown Hall (Roppongi, Tokyo) from Wednesday, December 9 to Friday, December 11, 2020 with the technological co-sponsorship of IEEE Consumer Technology Society. Its theme was "New Normal". It was held as hybrid exhibition at this time as an opportunity to practice“Digital Transformation”(DX) where real venue and the virtual venue meet each other while Covid-19 continues to thrive in the general population.

Many presentation sessions were held including the keynote, "New Normal - 2020 TRON Project and the Future Outlook", by TRON Project leader, Ken Sakamura (Dean of INIAD, Toyo University) The session recordings have been available so that people who register at the symposium can watch them anytime of the day even after the real exhibition is over.

In the real venue, visitors could see the displays related to IoT-Engine, embedded systems OS such as T-Kernel and ITRON Specification OS, products and services that use uID, and open data. The displays were presented online as part of the introduction of exhibitors. The video that introduces the exhibitors and their displays will be available until the end of December. Please watch them while you can.

TRONSHOW official website
https://www.tronshow.org/index-e.html

Pre-release of new version (v3.00.03) of μT-Kernel 3.0 from GitHub

New version (v3.00.03.B0) of μT-Kernel 3.0 has been pre-released from GitHub.

This version adds the following changes to v3.00.02.

• STM32L4 IoT-Engine has been added as the target hardware.
• Sample source code for the following device drivers have been added.
  Serial, A/D conversion, I2C communication for STM32L4
  I2C communication for RX231
• Various improvements.

Anyone can obtain the source code and document from the following URL at GitHub.
This version will be merged into the official release after an evaluation period.
https://github.com/tron-forum/mtkernel_3/releases

This is June 2020 issue of Email magazine from TRON Forum.

Releasing the official µT-Kernel 3.00.01 at GitHub

TRON Forum has officially released the latest version of µT-Kernel 3.0　(v3.00.01)　at GitHub on May 29 Friday, 2020. v3.00.01 has been pre-released as beta on GitHub since March 2020, and has now been merged to the official version.

The following changes have been made since v3.00.00.

• IoT-Engine with RX231 microcomputer (Renesas Electronics) is now supported as the porting target hardware.
• Improvement and fix to the implementation for ARM Cotex-M3 microcomputer and to the common part.
• A build procedure that uses make has been added. (A sample makefile has been added.).

The set of source files and associated documents is available via the following URL at GitHub.
https://github.com/tron-forum/mtkernel_3/releases

4th Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation in Tokyo

The Association for Open Data of Public Transportation has promoted the openness of data related to public transportation with an aim to make public transportation in "Tokyo," which is said to be the world's most complicated, easier for all people, including foreign visitors, people with disabilities, and elderly to navigate.

Fourth Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation in Tokyo call for apps that brings about smooth movement and comfortable stay to many visitors of Tokyo in 2020.

4th Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation in Tokyo
https://tokyochallenge.odpt.org/en/index.html 

TRON Forum: Security Advisories site

TRON Forum established a website, Security Advisories site, to collect and disseminate security advisories concerning vulnerabilities of the middleware products for TRON RTOS family (T-Kernel, µT-Kernel, T2EX, and ITRON specification RTOS, etc.) and OS kernel itself.

Please note that TRON Forum only publishes the technical specification document for ITRON RTOS. Implementation of the ITRON Specification RTOS is done by various parties according to the specification.  Hence, TRON Forum is not in a position to make a definitive statement on the vulnerabilities of the available implementations. However, in order to make it easy for the users of TRON RTOS family to obtain known vulnerabilities of TRON RTOS family, the forum has created this site.

TCP/IP protocol stack that is offered as part of T-Kernel 2.0 Extension (T2EX) is based on NetBSD protocol stack and has no relation to the IPstack of former Interpeak that is the subject of "Urgent/11" vulnerabilities.

However, we would like to remind members that proper care should be taken by consulting the latest security notices if a TCP/IP stack from a third party is used in your application irrespective of whether you use TRON RTOS family or not.

TRON Forum appreciates to receive any information on "Urgent/11" and other vulnerabilities related to third party products for TRON RTOS family.

■TRON Forum Security Advisories
https://www.tron.org/vulnerability/

■Department of Homeland Security
ICS Advisory (ICSA-19-274-01)
Interpeak IPnet TCP/IP Stack
https://www.us-cert.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-19-274-01

■ For your information, the following is the advisory regarding "Urgent/11" by ARMIS.
https://www.armis.com/urgent11/

Call for use cases of T-Kernel and ITRON specification OS

TRON Forum solicits you to provide information on your products and services that use T-Kernel and/or ITRON Specification OS. If you are interested in contributing such information, please fill out a form.  T-Kernel and ITRON have been used for applications in many fields such as aerospace, industrial devices, car navigation systems, multi-function printers, electronic musical instruments and digital cameras.

The submissions will be introduced through the TRON Forum website at http://www.tron.org/, the e-mail magazine, in speeches given by Chair Sakamura, and in "TRONWARE" which is a technical magazine on TRON Project, and in events organized, sponsored or cosponsored by TRON Forum, etc.

Please submit your application today. For details, please check the input form in the following URL.
https://www.tron.org/ja/tron-project/provide-the-use-case/

This is January 2020 issue of monthly TRON Forum mail magazine.

Thanks to the contribution of many, 2019 TRON Symposium was held successfuly in 2019, the 35th anniversary year since TRON Project started in 1984. I would like to thank many people who have cooperated with the symposium and those who visited the venue. The theme of 2019 TRON Symposium (TRONSHOW) was "Super & Safe City".

Many international events will be held in the year 2020 in Tokyo. World attention lands on Tokyo. I would like to contribute to Tokyo in 2020 using the results of TRON Project R&D activities such as open data,IoT, and others.

Regarding "open data", 4th Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation in Tokyo is being held with the additional co-sponsors of IT Strategic Headquarters, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Tokyo Metropolitan Government. The contest promotes the development of various apps that help meet the needs of the visitors who navigate in the greater Tokyo metropolitan area where many international events will be held. This is facilitated by offering data provided by the public transportation operators who are members of ODPT. Total amount of prizes of the fourth Challenge will be three million Japanese YEN. The final deadline of submissions of works to the contest is Oct 15, 2020. However, we expect many works to be available to the public before the deadline, and that they help the travelers who will move in the greater Tokyo metropolitan area.

In the IoT arena, TRON Forum has released the specification and reference source code of μT-Kernel 3.0 on the first day of 2019 TRON Symposium (TRONSHOW). This is a successor to μT-Kernel 2.0 which became the basis of IEEE Standard for Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) for Small-Scale Embedded Systems, IEEE 2050-2018, suitable for IoT edge nodes. TRON Project has used GitHub for the first time to make the information of μT-Kernel 3.0 available to the public. Releasing information on GitHub which is used by many developers every day should bring in the contribution of world-wide volunteers to advance μT-Kernel 3.0 in addition to the work done by TRON Forum T3WG (Working Group) that is in charge of the development of TRON OS in the T3-generation.

The opening of TRON IoT Vulnerability Advisory Center was announced at 2019 TRON Symposium. IoT has come out of research labs and is now used in the real world as useful applications. Vulnerabilities in IoT systems such as edge nodes and clouds will affect people's lives and activities of enterprises. Dealing head on with this issue appropriately is an important responsibility for TRON Forum which promotes TRON Project that has produced RTOS family that holds the topmost share in the embedded systems market.

I would like to offer solutions to the various issues identified in 2019 TRON Symposium in collaboration with the parties who help TRON Project. I appreciate your continuing contribution to TRON Project in 2020.

Ken Sakamura

Thank you to those who came to "2019 TRON Symposium-TRONSHOW-" in December.

2019 TRON Symposium (TRONSHOW) was held in Tokyo Midtown Hall, Roppongi, Tokyo sucessfully on December 11-13, 2019. The theme this time was "Super & Safe City". This theme reflects the compilation of all the concepts and projects which TRON Project has tackled before.: Aggregate Computing, Open IoT, the Internet of Services (IoS), open data of public sectors, open data of public transportation, Free Mobility Assistance Project, Enableware, smart house, smart building, omotenashi (hospitality) cloud, traceability, etc. There were many sessions during the three day symposium where visitors could learn the past achievement and future direction of TRON Project.

Prior to 2019 TRON Symposium, TRON Enableware Symposum, TEPS 32nd, was held at INIAD hall in Akabanedai campus of Toyo University on December 7, 2019. The main theme was "Disaster Medicine in the Age of the IoT ＋AI". Prof. Ken Sakamura gave the keynote. TEPS invited Naoto Morimura M.D. Ph.D, professor of the Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo this year. Prof. Morimura has been involved many disaster medicine cases in and outside Japan including the disaster medicine after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Through Prof. Morimura’s speech and panel discussion that followed, we could deepen our understanding of the role of IoT and AI technologies for disaster medicine and how we can take advantage of them.

Official Website of TRON Symposium (TRONSHOW)
https://www.tronshow.org/

Public release of the specification and source code of μT-Kernel 3.0 by TRON Forum

TRON Forum has established the specification of μT-Kernel 3.0 which is fully upward compatible with “IEEE 2050-2018,” the international standard of OS specification for IoT edge nodes, adopted by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The specification and source code has been released to the general public on the TRON Forum website and GitHub since December 11, 2019.

“IEEE 2050-2018” is international standard specification adopted by IEEE and TRON Project members’ original contributions remain in the standard very much. This specification satisfies the following requirements.
Target small-scale embedded systems that make up many IoT devices
Easy optimization and customization of implementation
High portability and distributability of middleware and device driver
Operation on a single chip microprocessor including 16-bit CPUs, without a memory management unit (MMU), with a small amount of ROM/RAM

Additional features of μT-Kernel 3.0 are as follows.
It is compliant with IEEE Standard 2050-2018 and has high compatibility with μT-Kernel 2.0.
Source code has been reviewed and rewritten so that porting to to latest microprocessors has become easier.
It is not tied to particular development environment, and is usable with many such environments.

The source code of μT-Kernel 3.0 is released as open source under the condition of T-License. The source released on December 11, 2019 targets the hardware of IoT-Engine with ARM Cortex-M3 CPU.

The specification is available fromt the TRON Forum webpage that publishes various specifications. The source code is available on GitHub as well as from the source code download page of TRON Forum website. Please refer to the following URLs to use them.

TRON Forum open specifiation download page
https://www.tron.org/specifications/

TRON Forum source code download page
https://www.tron.org/download/?language=en

GitHub(TRON Forum)
https://github.com/tron-forum

Alert regarding "URGENT/11" vulnerabilities of Interpeak IP Stack.

Advisories concerning “URGENT/11”, the set of vulnerabilities of Interpeak IP Stack

TRON Forum has established TRON IoT Vulnerability Advisory Center to collect and disseminate security advisories concerning vulnerabilities of the middleware products for TRON RTOS family (T-Kernel, μT-Kernel, T2EX, and ITRON specification RTOS, etc.) and OS kernel themselves. The Center also handles secuity vulnerability information on other OSs and their middleware products including "URGENT/11" of Interpeak IP Stack.

Regarding ITRON, TRON Forum only publishes its specification. Many parties implement it in different ways. So, TRON Forum cannot be responsible for the vulnerabilities of various implementaions of ITRON Specification OS. However, to help the users of such OSs, TRON Forum has preapared the TIVAC website.
TCP/IP protocol stack that is offered as part of T-Kernel 2.0 Extension (T2EX) is based on NetBSD protocol stack and has no relation to the IP stack of former Interpeak that is the subject of "URGENT/11" vulnerabilities.

However, we would like to remind members that proper care should be taken by consulting the latest security notices if a TCP/IP stack from a third party is used in your application irrespective of whether you use TRON RTOS family or not.

TRON Forum appreciates to receive any information on "Urgent/11" and other vulnerabilities related to third party products for TRON RTOS family.

■ TRON Forum: Security Advisorirs site
https://www.tron.org/ja/vulnerability/

■ U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Department of Homeland Security ICS Advisory (ICSA-19-274-01) Interpeak IPnet TCP/IP Stack
ICS Advisory (ICSA-19-274-01)
Interpeak Dipnet TCP/IP Stack
https://www.us-cert.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-19-274-01

■ The advisory regarding "Urgent/11" by ARMIS.
https://www.armis.com/urgent11/

Thank you for your continuing support for TRON Project and best wishes to all of you for the new year.

2018 TRON Symposium (TRONSHOW) to introduce and exhibit the activities in 2018 of TRON Project, which started in 1984, was held at the end of 2018. Its theme was “Being Connected.”

The major epoch of TRON Project in 2018 is that “IEEE 2050-2018” based on μb-Kernel 2.0 has been approved as IEEE Standard. In the session related to this standard, Stephen D. Dukes of IEEE SA gave a talk on the standard in the IoT age toward the future of IEEE, mainly on why IEEE needs de facto TRON specifications now.

“City Platform as a Services: Integrated and Open (CPaaS.io),” an EU-Japan collaborative project to solve the issues big cities across the world are facing now by using ICT was discussed by Stephan Haller, the coordinator on the EU side and the representatives from big cities at home and abroad: City of Zurich, Switzerland, the City of Murcia, Spain, Amsterdam in Holland, Yokosuka city in Kanagawa prefecture and Sapporo city in Hokkaido.

The presenters including Yuriko Koike, the Governor of Tokyo discussed the forthcoming 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games and the would-be legacy in a future-oriented manner.

The “2nd Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation in Tokyo” is now being held. It is a contest which calls for applications that use open data of public transportation. It is organized by Association for Open Data of Public Transportation I have been chairing. The third contest will be held from January 16, 2019 in cooperation with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government as well as the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.

In addition to the above session on the public transportation field, a session on Daiwa LogiTech “Logistic Robot Programming Contest” was held. For the contest, Daiwa LogiTech makes available its data related to logistics systems as open data and calls for applications and study reports that use such data. A variety of works which will point the direction of the future logistics are expected to be submitted by external developers who “are connected” via the open data of actual data.

2018 TRON Symposium (TRONSHOW) suggested the direction of TRON Project in 2019. For example, the approaches related to recurrent education at INIAD in which universities and companies “are connected,” the approaches in which home electronic appliances and industrial devices are connected across the boundaries of manufactures by using Open API via IoT-Aggregator, Personal Data Store (PDS) which lets users select to which service provider their personal attribute information is provided to connect individuals and the society, how “Omotenashi (Hospitality) Cloud” should be, etc. We will turn the future vision of TRON Project shown at the symposium into concrete forms step by step in 2019.

Ken Sakamura

We would like to thank many of you who visited “2018 TRON Symposium ― TRONSHOW.”

2018 TRON Symposium (TRONSHOW) was held at Tokyo Midtown Hall in Roppongi, Tokyo from Wednesday, December 12 to Friday, December 14, 2018. Many people visited, and many presentations and sessions were held. The theme of the symposium this time was “Being Connected.” The sessions and exhibition introduced how the TRON technologies “connect” people and people, people and objects and objects and objects.

Prior to the symposium, TRON Enableware Symposium TEPS 31st was held at the Akabenedai Campus of Toyo University, on Saturday, December 1, 2018 with a theme “Aging Society Supported by IoT/ICT Technologies.” Through the keynote speech by Chair Sakamura and the panel discussions, the role of IoT/ICT technologies in the super aging society were discussed.

TRONSHOW official website:
https://www.tronshow.org/

“Intelligent Logistics Center: Logistic Robot Programming Contest” is being held by Daiwa LogiTech

“Daiwa LogiTech ‘Intelligent Logistics Center: Logistic Robot Programming Contest’” has been held since December 20, 2018 by Daiwa LogiTech, a Daiwa House Group Company (President: Jun’ichi Akiba) and YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory directed by Ken Sakamura, the Chair of TRON Forum.

In this contest, developers at home and abroad compete in programing skills to operate logistic robots in an optimal manner by using actual data of the distribution center run by the group company of Daiwa LogiTech. The total amount of the prize is five million yen.

For the details of the contest, please see the following.

Daiwa LogiTech “Intelligent Logistics Center：Logistic Robot Programming Contest”
https://daiwalogitech-contest.jp/ 

The “2nd Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation in Tokyo” will be over soon, and the “3rd Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation in Tokyo” will be held subsequently

The “2nd Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation in Tokyo” is held by Association for Open Data of Public Transportation (Ken Sakamura (Dean of Faculty of Information Networking for Innovation and Design (INIAD), Toyo University) until January 15, 2019. Many public transportation operators and ICT operators in the Tokyo metropolitan area participate in the association. The second challenge is a follow-up to the first challenge held last year. It calls for various types of applications and ideas that use the data provided to third party developers by the public transportation operators participating in the association.

Static data such as route information and time tables, and dynamic data such as real-time location of trains and buses and the arrival and departure information of airplanes are made available. Maps and facility information of the major railway stations near Shinjuku and Tokyo stations are made available, too. They are prepared by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.

The Grand Award is 1,000,000 yen. Please take this opportunity to participate in the contest. The entry period for the “2nd Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation in Tokyo” is until January 15. The “3rd Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation in Tokyo” will be held from January 16. The details of the third challenge will be posted at the following official website on January 16.

uID architecture is adopted as the distribution technology to provide the data for Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation in Tokyo. Please see the following webpage for the details of the second contest.

2nd Open Data Challenge for Public Transportation in Tokyo
https://tokyochallenge.odpt.org/

This is the January 2017 issue of TRON Forum's monthly e-mail magazine.

Thank you for your continuing support for TRON Project and best wishes to all of you for the new year. 

TRON Project which started in 1984 made available the specification of real-time OS for embedded systems to anyone across the world in the philosophy of “Open Architecture.” The philosophy “Openness” is still a backbone for promoting TRON Project. Currently, the project has been expanding the range of “Openness” to various fields such as “Open data” which makes available and utilizes the data owned by the national government, local governments, public transportation operators, etc. and “Open API” to realize “Open IoT” which creates convenient services across the boundaries of device manufacturers and service providers.

During “2016 TRON Symposium (TRONSHOW)” held at the end of 2016, target hardware boards of “IoT-Engine,” a standard development environment to develop the edge nodes of the IoT devices were showcased with the cooperation of the project partner companies. Some of them have already been released in the market. We will promote the establishment of “IoT-Aggregator” which realizes the service coordination in the open IoT environment and advanced access control, and intend to use it for EU-Japan collaborative research project which started last year. As an approach for “Omotenashi” (hospitality) which supports foreign tourists and domestic travelers in Japan anticipating 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, we will establish and develop OPaaS.io that uses uID architecture. During 2016 TRON Symposium (TRONSHOW), TRON Forum has concluded a sister association agreement with IEEE in US to promote the standardization of future IoT together.

I will retire from the University of Tokyo in March 2017, and will serve as Dean of Faculty of Information Networking for Innovation and Design (INIAD) to be opened in a new campus of TOYO UNIVERSITY in Akabane, Tokyo as a new site of educational activities in April 2017. INIAD with a totally new concept will promote the education which fits the IoT age and the “Integration of Humanities, Arts and Sciences.” A new base of TRON Project activities will start with your further support and cooperation. Please look forward to the activities of TRON Project in 2017.

Ken Sakamura

We would like to thank many of you who visited “2016 TRON Symposium ― TRONSHOW.”

2016 TRON Symposium (TRONSHOW) was held at Tokyo Midtown Hall in Roppongi, Tokyo from Wednesday, December 14 to Friday, December 16, 2016 with the technical co-sponsorship of IEEE Consumer Electronics Society (U.S.A.). Starting from “The IoT in Action ― 2016 TRON Project and the Future Outlook,” the keynote speech by Chair Sakamura, many sessions were held for three days. The symposium and the exhibition focused on IoT-Engine pavilion, and also displayed IoT-Engine, TRON RTOS family such as, T-Kernel, μT-Kernel and MP T-Kernel, development environment, uID architecture, open data and omotenashi (hospitality) services for the year 2020.
The presentation materials for the sessions including the keynote speech are available at the TRONSHOW website. For the details, please see the following website.

TRONSHOW official website
http://www.tronshow.org/index-e.html
The presentation materials for the sessions
http://www.tronshow.org/2016-tron-symposium/session-pdf/en/data.html

Ubiquitous Computing Technology Corporation, an A-member of TRON Forum has commercialized “IoT-Engine” for the first time in the world. “IoT-Engine” is a standard platform for developing open IoT devices which facilitate the realization of Aggregate Computing proposed by Ken Sakamura, Chair of TRON Forum/professor of the University of Tokyo. This product is “TX03 M367 IoT-Engine Starter Kit” that uses Toshiba’s MCU. The price is 198,000 yen (tax excluded), and it has been shipping since September 30, 2016. For details, please see the following website. Press

Release in Japanese
http://ts.uctec.com/uctec/jp/topics/press/20160929/

TX03 M367 IoT-Engine Starter Kit

Please see http://www.qportal.com.my/Softec/softecasia2016/default.aspx
and detailed program:
http://www.qportal.com.my/Softec/softecasia2016/SitePages/schedule-at-a-glance.aspx

There will be an exhibit floor on September 6th and 7th, and TRON Forum will hold a booth to introduce, IoT-Engine, the development platform for the edge nodes of the IoT (Internet of Things).

In the morning of September 7th, there is a my Open IoT mini track and there will be presentations from participating TRON Forum members on the IoT-Engine, its concept and programming, and development tools for it.

The speeches will require advance registration. We will welcome you at the exhibition booth.
Please drop by if you happen to be in K.L. during My Open IoT 2016 event.