A Review: Comparison of IoT Operating Systems

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a large and rapidly expanding area with regards to both hardware platforms and software. When it comes to hardware platforms for the IoT some are more powerful and able to run a traditional OS like Linux, while other platforms are too constraint to do so. To ease the development within the IoT area an appropriate IoT OS is needed for these constrained hardware platforms, which can handle most of the functionality a traditional OS offer. Therefore, we evaluate IoT OSs targeted for low performance battery powered devices. In this paper Contiki, TinyOS and RIOT are evaluated. The aim of this evaluation is to determine important IoT OS characteristics for resource constrained devices, and to highlight difficulties and experiences related to the building process of prototypes for such IoT devices. The evaluation of the IoT OSs were conducted on four types of data with regards to several measurable OS characteristics according to a criteria based evaluation method.