FROM
THE EDITOR
Continuing on last week’s theme of sustainability, we look at the embedded engineering decisions of a company called LeanPath, who chose a standardized single-board hardware platform and Windows Embedded CE operating system as major components in their ValuWaste system for reducing institutional and commercial food waste. If you avoid not-invented-here (NIH) syndrome and go with industry-standard components, you can achieve remarkable engineering efficiency. Our latest feature has the details.
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LeanPath Weighs In
Choosing Between Open-source and Commercial OS
Most of us designing embedded systems have a pretty good idea of the parameters involved in choosing an OS for our device. We weigh the various business and technical concerns – open-source versus commercial, royalty-based versus one-time license fee, supported versus roll-your own. What happens when a startup company wanting to apply embedded technology to commonplace, real-world problems in traditionally low-tech areas needs to choose an OS for their product?
LeanPath is a Portland, Oregon-based company that wanted to develop an intelligent system to attack the problem of food waste in commercial and institutional environments. In the food service, restaurant, and hospitality industry, a great deal of food is wasted due to the lack of intelligent monitoring and management of production and waste. They reasoned that a system that tracked what food service operations were throwing away would have the basic data needed to improve the planning efficiency of most operations. Once the data was collected, analysis tools would help management make better-informed decisions. [more]
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