RTOS: The Key to Deterministic Behavior

Real-time operating system, popularly known by its acronym – RTOS, is a revolutionary tool in the world of modern industrial automation. It provides you with the foundation for achieving precise control and real-time communication. RTOS plays a vital role, especially in safety-critical systems where timing and responsiveness are paramount, and faulty behavior or even minute delay can lead to severe consequences.

Today, you will learn how RTOS can help impact deterministic behavior. Plus, you will also see how RTOS makes a machine builder or an organization more efficient in its outputs.

What Role Does RTOS Play in Deterministic Behavior?

With an RTOS, you get deterministic behavior. In other words, the system based on RTOS will always respond to certain events in a predictable and timely way. This deterministic behavior is possible because of the implementation of preemption and priority scheduling, in which higher priority tasks are executed before priority tasks. That’s why systems backed by RTOS behave predictably (or deterministically) and are very reliable. Plus, they also help prevent downtime and thereby boost system efficiency.

That is not all. Apart from ensuring predictable behavior, RTOS can also enhance system performance, improve system responsiveness, and reduce latency as they can manage system resources with greater efficiency. All of these qualities are especially critical in high-performance applications, motion control, for example, where even small delays can have a drastic impact on system performance.

Plus, with the help of RTOS, one can also simplify system design and cut down resources, as well as time taken in development. By facilitating a standard interface to manage system resources, RTOS makes the system design simpler so that one can easily develop and maintain complex industrial automation systems and machines. As a result, machine builders and companies can enjoy faster development times, better system reliability, and less maintenance costs.

IoT-enabled Real-Time Operating System by IntervalZero

We are transitioning to the era of Industry 4.0, which means more challenging environments, complex requirements, and tighter deadlines. Now, the automation and manufacturing sectors are driven by digitization and disruptive trends, such as increasing need for data and connectivity, analytics, human-machine interaction, and enhancements in the robotics field. So, to build machines and systems, you need not just any RTOS. What you need to stay ahead of the competition is an IoT-enabled RTOS.

IntervalZero has come up with an open, secure, IoT-ready RTOS so that machine builders can embrace and fulfill the digital demands that come with Industry 4.0. The leading machine builders are already switching from traditional purposely-built machine controllers to more advanced IoT-enabled RTOS.

RTX64 is your way to build systems for IoT era. With IntervalZero’s RTX64 RTOS scheduler – a hard real-time add-in, you can make your Windows systems even more powerful and reliable. Create next-generation machine controllers and machines with the RTOS-quality precision from the deterministic behavior of the RTX64 scheduler and benefit from all the products available in the Windows ecosystem.