2025-08-28 –, Studio 1
The Yocto Project offers flexibility and control — but in real-world products, that flexibility can quickly become complexity. In this session, Witekio shares practical lessons learned from dozens of commercial Yocto implementations across industries such as industrial control, home appliances, medical devices, and off-highway vehicles. We’ll discuss how product requirements shape Yocto choices, where common pitfalls arise, and how to structure Yocto projects for maintainability, security, and product longevity. Whether you’re starting your first Yocto-based product or scaling across multiple platforms, this session offers pragmatic guidance from real deployments.
Quick intro: Why Yocto remains a dominant force in embedded product development
Industry examples:
Industrial automation: Long lifecycle, secure updates, field upgradeability
Home appliances: Cost-sensitive, OTA integration, multi-product reuse
Off-highway vehicles: Harsh environments, long-term support, hybrid compute architectures
Common technical pain points (and how to avoid them):
BSP management across multiple hardware SKUs
Upstream vs downstream trade-offs
Integration with application teams
Build system organization tips (layers, CI/CD, reproducibility)
Long-term support strategies for real customers
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Ed Langley is Solutions Manager at Witekio’s Bristol office, where he supports presales activities, validates customer architecture choices, and oversees the local engineering team. With a first-class degree in Computing for Real-Time Systems from UWE, Ed has over 15 years’ experience in embedded software engineering, spanning Linux kernel drivers, Android platform builds, QNX BSPs, bootloaders, board bring-up, and microcontroller development. His work has powered products across consumer electronics, automotive, medical devices, industrial control, and vending/kiosk systems—many with complex IoT, security, and firmware update requirements. Ed’s technical expertise includes C/C++, ARM assembly, Yocto Project, Android, and QNX, alongside hands-on experience with a wide range of SoCs and toolchains.