News Release
eflow releases Hyperdroid™
a hybrid service platform for embedded devices combining Real-time virtualization + Android™ + OSGi™
May 12, 2010
eflow Inc. (Tokyo, Shibuya - CEO: Koichi Makabe), the developer and provider of embedded middleware and networked application products and solutions, today announced its Hyperdroid platform, a hybrid environment that allows the implementation of rich services on embedded devices while preserving their core real-time services, thanks to the use of virtualization technology. eflow will be demonstrating Hyperdroid at the 13th Embedded Systems Expo ("ESEC") in Tokyo (May 12-14, Tokyo Big Sight, booth East #37-2 at Axe Inc.).
With devices gaining in sophistication, embedded systems are also increasingly gaining in complexity. On the Hyperdroid platform, next-generation, rich services are built upon two key components, an optimized Android environment and an OSGi framework, without compromising the real-time services that are essential to the core functionalities of the devices.
Core features of the Hyperdroid platform:
A stable hybrid environment
The simultaneous rise of sophistication and complexity in embedded devices makes it increasingly difficult to ensure the stability of their core real-time services, whether they be the phone or the printing function. In the Hyperdroid platform, the use of real-time virtualization (Hypervisor) technology allows to completely isolate the real-time environment from the rich services environment, and so to maintain the primary real-time services without having any influence on the behavior of the newly implemented rich services.
An optimized and customized Android platform for implementing rich services
Although the Android platform is anticipated to become the de-facto standard for implementing rich services on embedded devices, appropriate integration, stabilization, and customization to ensure the optimization of the services are absolutely essential to deliver actual commercial products. With the Hyperdroid platform, eflow is providing OEMs and network operators a comprehensive set of services focussing on stabilization and customization, from the initial porting of the Android environment to the actual product commercialization.
Interoperability with home computing devices with the OSGi framework
As the pivotal technology for the next-generation home computing allowing seamless interoperability between the home and the cloud, the OSGi service platform is expected to record an exploding growth. eflow is integrating the OSGi stack into the heart of the Hyperdroid platform, as it runs on top of the Dalvik virtual machine, on the same Linux kernel as the Android environment, allowing the embedded devices to connect to the home computing infrastructure.
Figure 1 shows the reference architecture for Hyperdroid, articulated around advanced Linux and Android technologies. Actual architectures and implementations may differ, as customization will be made depending on each target device’s features and capabilities.
(Fig.1) Hyperdroid Reference Architecture
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About eflow
Leveraging its core expertise and extensive experience in the Java™ and Android™ platforms, as well as in browser, rich-media, and network technologies, eflow provides the essential software products, components, and core technologies, for network operators, service providers, and manufacturers to bring high-value, rich services to next-generation connected devices — from smartphones, to home information and healthcare appliances, to digital televisions. eflow also integrates its solutions with customizable reference hardware to give its customers total control over the user experience, allowing seamless integration of hardware, software, content, and services. eflow is headquartered in Tokyo, with offices in Seoul, Taipei, and Beijing, and can be found on the web at http://www.eflow.jp/
eflow entered into a business and capital alliance with AXE, Inc. in July 2009.
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