Green electronics best practices and design patterns with Zephyr RTOS
summary
Project EON involves 50 partners and runs until mid‑2026 targeting circular electronics; software contributes by extending device lifetime rather than recycling. Recommendations: use Zephyr’s system PM and device PM for sleep and peripheral suspend, avoid busy loops, and prefer event queues; collect diagnostics via the logging API + MCU Manager; enable safe OTA with MCUboot with signed images and img tool; use device trees, API versioning, littlefs/NVS, watchdogs and reproducible west manifests.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Green electronics with Zephyr
- 1:52E-waste problem and circular economy
- 3:43Six R principles in electronics
- 5:28Reliability and repairability
- 8:02Power efficiency and battery waste
- 11:20Software’s role in device longevity
- 14:11Remote updates in Zephyr
- 15:55Zephyr APIs for diagnostics
- 18:44Hardware abstraction in Zephyr
- 20:10Secure field updates in Zephyr
- 21:36Repairing vs reusing devices
- 26:11Refurbishing devices
- 27:54Zephyr for sustainable design
- 29:20Q&A
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