Zephyr Developer Forum
- 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














