What Is TRON?
TRON1 Project is a computer architecture development project by collaboration of industry and academia, and started in 1984. Ken Sakamura (Professor Emeritus, the University of Tokyo) is the project leader, and the project has conducted research and development activities in real-time OSs (RTOSs) for embedded systems, IoT network and other topics.
The architecture and achievement of this project have been widely used in embedded systems in various industries ranging from consumer products such as automotive engine control, digital cameras, smartphones, etc., to industrial applications such as factory machine control.
TRON Open Architecture
TRON Project has proposed and promoted Open Architecture since its inception. In its vision, computers based on open architecture will be embedded into many devices, and realize the IoT networking environment that supports our lives.
The results of TRON Project such as the whole source codes of TRON RTOSs including T-Kernel and μT-Kernel are published, and can be copied and modified.
International Standardization
In addition to making open specification and open source code available, TRON Project actively suggests standard specification to international standardization associations such as the International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and contributes to the international standardization of the infrastructure technology.
IEEE 2050-2018 - IEEE Standard for a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) for Small-Scale Embedded Systems, established in 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), an American standardization body, was based on the specification of μT-Kernel 2.0, an RTOS developed by TRON Forum. The latest version, μT-Kernel 3.0, conforms to IEEE 2050-2018 completely.
IoT-Aggregator and IoT-Engine
TRON Project has been aiming to realize systems where any objects in our surroundings embedded with computers collaborate with each other since its inception in 1984. This concept is currently being realized under the names such as the IoT and ubiquitous computing.
For this purpose, TRON Project has proposed the concept of "Aggregate Computing" and its realization framework called "IoT-Aggregator."
TRON Project has also been developing IoT-Engine as a standard platform environment for edge nodes that work with IoT-Aggregator.
1. TRON stands for The Real-time Operating system Nucleus.