Emteria.OS

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emteria.OS
Developer emteria GmbH
OS family Linux/Android
Working stateCurrent
Source model Proprietary, unless obligated otherwise [1]
Latest release 1.2.24
Marketing targetEmbedded
License Commercial
Official website emteria.com

Emteria.OS is an Android-based operating system (OS). The application of the OS is mainly purposed for industrial applications such as internet of things, digital signage, vending machines, point of sale or smart city. [2] [3] [4]

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Introduction

The emteria.OS is a commercial operating system developed by German company emteria GmbH. [5] It extends the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) platform with additional applications and services with the focus on industrial use cases.

Based on AOSP, emteria.OS is fully compatible with existing applications and components for Android. Also, as an advantage of Android, emteria.OS brings improvements in uniform UI and a rich framework for app development into different industrial devices. [6]

The platform can be used for reliable industrial applications and products such as point-of-sales systems, smart homes, infotainment installations, as well as for Human Machine Interfaces (HMI), and ticketing machines.

Market goals

Emteria.OS started with Android 7 for Raspberry Pi 3B/3B+, [7] which is a popular maker board and used in industry for proof of concept (PoC) and prototyping. [8] Later a version for Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer Kit, and Compute Module 4 was released to support custom RPi-based devices. The latest version of emteria.OS for Raspberry Pi 4B and Raspberry Pi 5 is based on the Android 14 version Upside Down Cake [9] [10] [11] recently released by Google. The list of supported platforms has been expanded to devices based on Qualcomm, NXP, Rockchip and Intel chipsets. [12] Emteria is an official Intel Celadon partner, [13] and emteria.OS is listed in the official Raspberry Pi Imager. [14] Emteria provides a reliable operating system for production. [15]

Features

The product aims at increasing the adaptability of Android and simplifies its customization. It extends Android in order to meet the needs of enterprises and brings simplicity to the configuration and remote management of devices. [16]

Emteria.OS adds new features to standard Android, in order to make the operation and management for product manufacturers easier: [17] [18]

In addition to a pre-built Android operating system, Emteria offers the service of creating customized Android ROMs based on Board Support Packages (BSP) for different custom boards built on industrial hardware platforms. These custom ROMs are kept up to date with regular security and version updates. [22] Emteria ensures to provide a foundation for a wide variety of hardware—no matter the form-factor.

Supported hardware

A list of supported devices is given in the following table: [12]

ManufacturerModel
Technology co.Artista-IoT TFT Controller
Acme Systems srlACME CM3-Panel
TechNexionEDM-G-IMX8M-PLUS
Elo Touch SolutionsElo I-Series 2.0
IntelIntel NUC
Raspberry Pi FoundationRaspberry Pi 3B/3B+, 4B and 5
Raspberry Pi FoundationRaspberry Pi CM DevKit
Raspberry Pi FoundationRaspberry Pi Compute Module 3 and 4
Raspberry Pi FoundationRaspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer Kit
RadxaROCK Pi 4 and 5
PHYTECphyCORE-i.MX 8M
TechNexionPICO-IMX8M-MINI
Fortec IntegratedPOS-IQ-156-00-PRO
ZimaZimaBoard Single Board Server

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