French-American software comoany
MicroEJ Company type Private Industry Virtualization, computer programming Founded 2004 Founder Fred Rivard Headquarters Area served
Worldwide Number of employees
60 (in 2021)[ 1] Website microej .com
MicroEJ (pronounced "micro-EDGE")[ 2] is a French-American independent software vendor with headquarters in Nantes , France[ 3] and offices in Boston , Massachusetts , USA.[ 4] It was founded by Fred Rivard in 2004.[ 5] [ 6] [ 7] It is known for developing MICROEJ VEE, a Virtual Execution Environment for embedded software development and other software development tools such as the software development kit MICROEJ SDK.[ 6] [ 8]
History
Fred Rivard founded MicroEJ under the name Industrial Smart Software Technologies (IS2T).[ 5] MicroEJ established its offices in Boston in 2016.[ 9]
At the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) , MicroEJ announced plans to release an app store platform for IoT devices .[ 10]
MicroEJ partnered with Groupe SEB to integrate MICROEJ VEE into its food processor products in 2021.[ 11] In the same year, MicroEJ also partnered with NXP Semiconductors to offer a MICROEJ VEE platform on NXP's i.MX RT500 MCU for wearables .[ 12] [ 13]
At CES 2022, MicroEJ launched the first containerized software platform for smart home and industrial devices connected using the Matter protocol.[ 14] In 2022, MicroEJ also partnered with Thales to offer MICROEJ VEE on the Thales Cinterion IoT Module and Plug and Play IoT Devices.[ 15] MicroEJ also partnered with Telit to develop Telit IoT cellular modules' software development ecosystem.[ 16]
In 2023, MicroEJ announced collaboration with Polar Electro to integrate MICROEJ VEE several wearable products.[ 17] The company also revealed collaboration with Schneider Electric to integrate MICROEJ VEE technology in Industrial IoT products. [ 18]
Products
MICROEJ VEE (Virtual Execution Environment) comes in the form of a runtime environment and its associated software libraries for running containers (also called virtual machines ) reproducing the behavior of embedded systems .[ 2] [ 6] [ 19] MicroEJ uses Instruction Set hardware virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers [ 2] [ 20] and enable the creation of app stores .[ 4] [ 10]
MicroEJ also provides a simulator allowing the development of software applications on virtual devices (actual embedded devices simulated on workstations ).[ 20] [ 21]
MicroEJ provides an IDE based on Eclipse for creating embedded software and applications on desktop.[ 20] MICROEJ SDK supports programming languages such as C , Java , Javascript , and Kotlin .[ 22] [ 6] Applications can also be developed using Android Studio and Gradle .[ 8]
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^ Etherington, Darrell (2020-01-14). "MicroEJ is taking over IoT on Earth and beyond" . TechCrunch . Retrieved 2022-09-24 .
^ a b Flaherty, Nick (2022-06-30). "MicroEJ kit boosts Android portability in the IoT eeNews Europe" . EENewsEurope . Retrieved 2022-09-24 .
^ Basyn, Dirk (2016-10-03). "MicroEJ ouvre une filiale aux Etats-Unis" . ChannelNews (in French). Retrieved 2022-09-24 .
^ a b Golightly, Daniel (2020-01-08). "MicroEJ Wants IoT To Welcome Its Third Wave Revolution With App Stores" . Android Headlines . Retrieved 2022-09-24 .
^ "SEB annonce sa collaboration avec MicroEJ" . Boursier.com (in French). Retrieved 2022-09-24 .
^ Manners, David (2021-09-02). "NXP and MicroEJ hook up for wearables" . Electronics Weekly . Retrieved 2022-09-24 .
^ "2022, l'année des montres connectées pour MicroEJ" . www.journaldunet.com (in French). Retrieved 2022-09-24 .
^ Flaherty, Nick (2022-01-07). "First containerised software for Matter connected devices eeNews Europe" . EENewsEurope . Retrieved 2022-09-24 .
^ "MicroEJ, Thales partner to deliver efficient IoT customer experience" . Connected Real Estate Magazine . 2022-07-11. Retrieved 2022-09-24 .
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^ "IoT : MicroEJ, le petit Nantais qui monte" . Les Echos Executives (in French). 2023-01-11. Retrieved 2023-06-15 .
^ Higginbotham, Stacey (2023-02-13). "The industrial IoT is ready to embrace developers" . Stacey on IoT | Internet of Things news and analysis . Retrieved 2023-06-15 .
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^ "Embedded Java for RX microcontrollers from Renesas collaboration" . Smart Energy International . 2013-10-18. Retrieved 2023-06-15 .
^ Waters, John K. (September 2, 2021). "MicroEJ Open Sources Kifaru JavaScript Framework for Embedded Development -" . ADTmag . Retrieved 2023-06-15 .