Wind River integrates VxWorks with IBM’s Watson IoT service

Wind River has announced a VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS) client for the IBM Watson IoT platform.

This is part of the IBM and Wind River collaboration aimed at IoT deployments amongst industrial customers – offering what the pair call ‘edge-to-cloud recipes’ designed to simplify the development of smart connected devices.

“This integration marks the first in a series of VxWorks clients for cloud service providers to follow,” said VxWorks.

VxWorks client for Watson IoT enables VxWorks-powered IoT devices to connect directly to the IBM Watson IoT platform.

It is based on the Watson IoT software development kit (SDK) and means devices running VxWorks use both Watson and IBM’s Bluemix cloud services.

“To offer maximum flexibility to our customers, different clients will be integrated into VxWorks in the near future to enable customers to choose their cloud provider of choice,” said VxWorks.

The client for Watson IoT is available now for free on the VxWorks Marketplace.