QNX Software Systems has unveiled its new smart energy reference, providing out-of-the-box support for Zigbee sensors, Insteon home area networks, streaming IP video cameras for security monitoring, an application for calculating costs of energy consumption, and Internet connectivity for retrieving weather information and performing remote control and diagnostics. Other features include zone temperature controls, individual and zone light controls, and appliance monitoring and control.
The smart energy reference is based on the QNX Aviage HMI Suite, which provides a framework for creating highly attractive home energy touchscreens in Adobe Flash, and on the QNX Neutrino RTOS. The smart energy reference runs on multiple hardware architectures, including Atmel (G45, M11), Freescale (i.MX25, i.MX35, i.MX51), and Texas Instruments (AM3517, OMAP3530) processors.
This week at embedded world, QNX will demonstrate several of its latest technologies, including an interactive demo based on the smart energy reference and a hypervisor demo that demonstrates how industrial control systems can run two operating systems, the QNX Neutrino RTOS and Microsoft Windows, on a single multi-core chip.
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