In 2013, Xiong Puxiang first conceived the idea of building a more advanced and elegant operating system due to his dissatisfaction with the limitations of small RTOS at that time. Over the past 11 years, RT-Thread has evolved into a leading open-source IoT operating system in China, with over 100 million units installed. It has gained strong support from developers, chip manufacturers, terminal makers, and investors across the industry chain.
Recently, RT-Thread secured angel funding from Jufeng Investment, a subsidiary of Huaqiang Jufeng. Jufeng Investment specializes in supply chain investments. Zeng Haiying, head of Jufeng Investment, emphasized that their investment in Ruiside was driven by shared values and goals—both parties aim to deliver better products to the market and enable developers to work more efficiently while reducing costs for end devices.
So, how has RT-Thread managed to win the trust of 150,000 developers? How has it attracted a wide range of makers, chip companies, terminal manufacturers, and cloud service providers in the rapidly growing domestic IoT OS market?
During a recent event held on the 21st floor of Huangxuan Hotel in Shenzhen, RT-Thread and Shanghai Ruiside Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., a leading domestic IoT operating system platform, launched their new product and partner program under the theme “Accumulating Chengrui Huize Baichuan.†Xiong Puxiang, founder and general manager of Ruiside Electronics, shared insights into RT-Thread’s success.
“With the increasing networking trend of terminals, connectivity has become a fundamental requirement for innovation,†Xiong explained. “IoT devices are no longer isolated embedded systems. The operating system must provide full IoT support, including network protocol stacks, low-power management, file systems, security mechanisms, and even cloud-connected SDKs and AI interaction features.â€
RT-Thread 3.0, the latest version of the IoT OS developed by Shanghai Ruiside, is designed for IoT applications, processing cores, and networking protocols. Built on a decade of open-source experience, it offers high maturity, stability, rich middleware, and IoT components. It also features low resource consumption, high customizability, ease of secondary development, and commercial support for all major chips and CPU architectures.
What is RT-Thread?
1. RT-Thread is an RTOS kernel, first released in 2006 and developed by Mr. Xiong. It is fully open source, lightweight, and widely adopted by leading chips and terminal companies.
2. RT-Thread is a middleware platform, offering comprehensive software components like file systems, device frameworks, GUI libraries, and application frameworks.
3. RT-Thread is a vibrant developer community, the largest open-source embedded community in China, with over 150,000 active members and growing rapidly.
4. RT-Thread is also a company—Ruiside Electronic Technology—providing professional services for the development, maintenance, updates, and operation of the RT-Thread ecosystem.
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