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	Wind River
HQ Location	United States
Year Founded	1981
Company Type	Private
Revenue	$100m-1b
Employees	1,001 - 10,000
Website	Open website

Wind River

HQ Location

United States

Year Founded

1981

Company Type

Private

Revenue

$100m-1b

Employees

1,001 - 10,000

Website

Open website

Company Description	Wind River Systems provides software operating systems and development tools for embedded systems. A microprocessor and software comprise embedded systems, which are used in more than 1 billion products that include auto braking systems, Internet traffic routers, jet fighter control panels, mobile phones, set-top boxes, traffic signals, and other consumer electronics. Read More
IoT Solutions	Building safe and secure systems is the hallmark of Wind River. For the past 30 years they have been ensuring that safety-critical systems, for everything from industrial plants and electrical substations to jet airliners and commuter trains, absolutely work without fail. They are now harnessing our decades of field experience to deploy advanced technologies such as software agents and microkernels to more fully integrate our ultra-reliable operating systems into the Internet of Things (IoT). The Internet of Things is officially here. And with it are not only new challenges, but also untapped value and immense opportunity estimated at $19 trillion. Realize IoT’s huge potential with Wind River Helix, a comprehensive portfolio of software solutions for harnessing intelligence to drive innovation and business transformation. With their offering, developers and device manufacturers can not only create the safe, secure, and reliable intelligent systems that make up IoT, but also move the data generated by these systems–from the secure and managed devices at the edge, through the gateway, across the critical network infrastructure, and up into the cloud. Wind River Helix is everything a business needs to both survive and thrive in this exciting new era of data. Read More Log in to view content
Key Customers	Boeing, NASA JPL, Bosch, Olympus, Huawei Read More Log in to view content
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Company Description

Wind River Systems provides software operating systems and development tools for embedded systems. A microprocessor and software comprise embedded systems, which are used in more than 1 billion products that include auto braking systems, Internet traffic routers, jet fighter control panels, mobile phones, set-top boxes, traffic signals, and other consumer electronics.

IoT Solutions

Building safe and secure systems is the hallmark of Wind River. For the past 30 years they have been ensuring that safety-critical systems, for everything from industrial plants and electrical substations to jet airliners and commuter trains, absolutely work without fail. They are now harnessing our decades of field experience to deploy advanced technologies such as software agents and microkernels to more fully integrate our ultra-reliable operating systems into the Internet of Things (IoT). The Internet of Things is officially here. And with it are not only new challenges, but also untapped value and immense opportunity estimated at $19 trillion. Realize IoT’s huge potential with Wind River Helix, a comprehensive portfolio of software solutions for harnessing intelligence to drive innovation and business transformation. With their offering, developers and device manufacturers can not only create the safe, secure, and reliable intelligent systems that make up IoT, but also move the data generated by these systems–from the secure and managed devices at the edge, through the gateway, across the critical network infrastructure, and up into the cloud. Wind River Helix is everything a business needs to both survive and thrive in this exciting new era of data.

Key Customers

Boeing, NASA JPL, Bosch, Olympus, Huawei

Wind River is a provider of Industrial IoT platform as a service (paas), analytics and modeling, cybersecurity and privacy, and processors and edge intelligence technologies, and also active in the aerospace, automotive, healthcare and hospitals, national security and defense, and telecommunications industries.

Technologies

Processors & Edge Intelligence

Embedded Operating Systems

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Connectivity Platforms

Cybersecurity & Privacy

Cloud Security

Analytics & Modeling

Digital Twin / Simulation

Industries

Aerospace

Automotive

Healthcare & Hospitals

National Security & Defense

Telecommunications

Wind River’s Technology Stack maps Wind River’s participation in theplatform as a service (paas), analytics and modeling, cybersecurity and privacy, and processors and edge intelligence IoT technology stack.

Application Layer
Functional Applications

Cloud Layer
Platform as a Service

Infrastructure as a Service

Edge Layer
Automation & Control

Processors & Edge Intelligence

Actuators

Sensors

Devices Layer
Robots

Drones

Wearables

Supporting
Technologies
Analytics & Modeling

Application Infrastructure & Middleware

Cybersecurity & Privacy

Networks & Connectivity

Technological Capability

None

Minor

Moderate

Strong

Number of Case Studies3

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	General Dynamics Uses Wind River Simics to Meet NASA Challenge In designing and building Fermi, the General Dynamics C4 Systems business unit was faced with a challenge: it needed to provide an environment that could support rigorous testing by multiple Fermi subsystem groups before the spacecraft hardware was available.
	NASA Meets Satellite Project Testing And Verification Goals Rising development and maintenance costs comprise the key business challenge of testing and verification for NASA IV&V. Because of their complexity and stringent safety requirements, most NASA projects take many years to come to fruition.

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