The Eclipse IoT Developer Survey 2019 showed that Zephyr had approximately 3% of the RTOS market share for IoT. And so the number should've increased by now. Zephyr is becoming the de facto Opensource RTOS for the IoT market due to its scalable and yet feature-rich nature. Zephyr already supports multiple SoC architectures and communication protocols. But for Zephyr to become an RTOS for Industrial and Smart city applications, it needs to support a communication technology that can transmit data at longer distances in a less congested spectrum. This is where LoRa (Long Range) communication technology by Semtech perfectly fits in. The basic LoRa support in Zephyr was added back in December 2019 and since then there has been a huge interest among the community to extend the support for it. More recently, the LoRaWAN support is also added to Zephyr. This will provide true networking support to Zephyr over LoRa. This talk will briefly go over the current LoRa/LoRaWAN support in Zephyr, the motivation, future plans, etc...
Mani is a Kernel Engineer at the Qualcomm Landing team of Linaro. He maintains several ARM SoC architectures, drivers, MHI bus support in the Linux kernel. He also maintains LoRa, LoRaWAN and LED support in Zephyr RTOS.
