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Zephyr Developer Forum

  • Writer: Oliver Völckers
    Oliver Völckers
  • Oct 14
  • 1 min read

Updated: Nov 3

Workshop and Presentation on October 14, 2025 in Munich Garching, Science Congress Center, organized by Fachmedium Elektronik (German language)


Workshop: Getting Started with Zephyr RTOS – From the Basics to Your First Zephyr Program

by Oliver Völckers (BeST), Peter Fecher (Phytec), and Agustin Harfuch (Kernenergetics)

  • Background of Zephyr RTOS with the Linux Foundation

  • Working in the community

  • Unix tools and command line

  • Hands-on: git, Zephyr SDK, DeviceTree, Kconfig, make, CMake, west, QEMU emulator

  • My first Zephyr program, setting up the IDE environment

Thanks for the support to Dr. Tobias Kästner (inovex GmbH) und Stephan Linz (Navimatix GmbH)


Presentation: Development of a networked IoT monitoring system with Zephyr RTOS

by Oliver Völckers

  • Wastewater pump monitoring at Deutsche Bahn operating stations

  • Internet of Things, battery-powered, EDGE system

  • Requirements: Robustness, security, reliability

  • Why use an RTOS real-time operating system?

  • Why use open source components?

  • Pattern recognition, radio transmission, LTE-M

  • Strategies for energy-saving operation

  • Advantages of Zephyr RTOS in this project

  • FlowNexus server software as a supplement


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