| Wind River to Hold Technology Forum 19 in Yangjae, Seoul
| Introduction to Embedded System Security and Safety Measures
| Create tracks for each market to share the latest technologies and cases

What is the difference between automation and autonomy?

If automation means that the system operates according to a predefined scenario, autonomy means that the system itself makes decisions and operates on its own. And the core of autonomy is AI, which is modeled after human intelligence.

The industry is currently trying to achieve system autonomy by running AI at the edge rather than in the cloud.

Accordingly, Wind River announced its edge platform strategy and is moving to solidify its position in the embedded systems field.

On the 21st, Wind River held the 'Wind River Technology Forum 2019' conference at the L Tower in Yangjae-dong, Seoul, with the theme of 'From Automated to Autonomous'.

At this event, Wind River shared insights with over 200 attendees on how to leverage OS to secure and safeguard embedded systems and the importance of integrated edge platforms.

The forum consisted of ▲Defense & Industry Track ▲Networking Track ▲Automobile Track along with keynote speeches, invited lectures, introduction of Wind River product portfolio and overseas cases.

In the Defense & Industrial track, Wind River explained how its open architecture-based multicore processor technology enables the integration of open source, legacy, third-party, and proprietary solutions into a secure and reliable platform.
<br /> Wind River said that it provides the defense market with fast and efficient development of next-generation unmanned systems and functional safety through virtualization technology. It also explained that in the industrial market, it can add safety and stability to products and services in various industrial sites such as factories, hospitals, and remote facility operations through workload integration based on virtualization technology.

In the networking track, Gil Hellmann, Vice President of Global Solutions Engineering at Wind River headquarters, visited Korea and shared the latest trends in edge cloud and container technology.

In addition, sessions featuring experts from each field introduced Linux security trends, Lenovo OEM solutions for edge computing, and O-RAN (Open Radio Access Network) utilization cases.

At the car track, Wind River shared virtualization technology and global application cases considering automotive functional safety. It also covered cases of adaptive AUTOSAR technology application, automotive OTA technology trends, next-generation vehicle network technology, and security vulnerability assessment of Linux-based systems.

“Critical infrastructure environments around the world are rapidly evolving from simply automated systems to autonomous systems,” said Michael Krutz, Wind River vice president and managing director for Japan, in a keynote speech.

He added, “Wind River will work with us as a trustworthy technology partner to lead innovation economically while ensuring safety and stability through embedded OS and edge platforms that serve as the foundation for autonomous operations.” He added, “The integrated edge platform will be the bridge between the existing closed and isolated systems and the future connected open systems.”

He then listed five strategies for building a successful edge platform: ▲economical and scalable edge workload integration ▲system partitioning for mixed safety, security, and real-time functions ▲enhancing accessibility to key edge data ▲managing the edge platform as a landing zone for cloud environment applications ▲supporting migration of workloads and virtual control functions at the edge.

To this end, Wind River, as an embedded software company, is developing arm, NXP, has close partnerships with semiconductor companies such as Texas Instruments, Xilinx, Renesas, PowerPC, and Intel, which was its parent company until 2018.

Meanwhile, 2 billion devices worldwide are currently powered by Wind River’s embedded software. Wind River has a 36% share in the RTOS space and a 52% share in embedded Linux.