On March 31, ZhiXin Company’s independently developed embedded operating system – Hub 4.0 (hereinafter referred to as “Hub 4.0”) successfully passed the certification by a domestic authoritative testing organization – the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s China Electronics Information Industry Development Research Institute, with a kernel code autonomy rate of 100%, marking a major breakthrough for ZhiXin Company in the development of industrial control chip operating systems.
The China Electronics Information Industry Development Research Institute is one of the largest directly affiliated research institutions of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Hub 4.0 has undergone strict screening through its code review system and professional personnel, with an open-source similarity of 0%. It is a 100% autonomous and controllable operating system that has successfully entered the ranks of internationally renowned industrial control operating systems.
The operating system is the brain of industrial terminals, and the security of the operating system directly determines the security of terminal products and even the entire industrial control system. In the face of increasingly severe national information security issues, Hub 4.0 focuses on industrial IoT scenarios, adopting lightweight, highly reliable, and flexible design concepts, breaking through key technologies such as real-time scheduling and security isolation, providing safe and reliable guarantees for data generation, collection, calculation, and transmission. At the same time, users can build systems in a “building block” manner, reducing the coupling between systems and avoiding system crashes due to the failure of a single component, featuring high security, easy expansion, and greater stability. It has reached internationally advanced levels in task scheduling, distributed messaging soft bus, virtualization, and other technologies, comprehensively covering the application needs of chip operating systems in the industrial control field, providing safe and reliable domestic solutions for the industrial sector.
ZhiXin Company’s Hub 4.0 is custom-developed for the industrial control field. Unlike consumer operating systems that do not require real-time data transmission, Hub 4.0 ensures real-time data transmission, while also having the ability to control access permissions to software and hardware resources with finer granularity, providing a higher security level, maximizing the protection of user information security, and being more suitable for industrial control scenarios and instructions.Since 2019, various edge computing core boards and their products (intelligent integrated terminals for power distribution, edge IoT agents, smart switches, photovoltaic grid-connected switches, smart IoT energy meters, etc.) equipped with ZhiXin Hub operating system have achieved millions of on-site deployments and applications in 27 provincial companies of the State Grid Corporation, receiving widespread recognition from power system customers.
With the advent of the era of the Internet of Everything, more and more intelligent terminals require a more compatible and secure industrial chip embedded operating system. ZhiXin Company will combine advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and 5G communication for product iteration, meeting various scenario needs in industrial control fields such as automotive electronics, rail transit, petrochemical, gas, and water services, forming comprehensive coverage, promoting the construction and development of the entire industrial control ecosystem, and using its technical capabilities to safeguard national information security, serving national information security with autonomous and controllable technology.
Source: Intelligent Distribution Division, Digital Chip Design Center, Safety Sensor Division
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