On November 16, Xiaomi Group Chairman Lei Jun announced on Weibo that XiaomiVela was officially open sourced to global software and hardware developers. Xiaomi Mobile’s official Weibo also announced the news. According to Xiaomi's official website, Vela is Xiaomi's IoT embedded software platform based on the open source real-time operating system NuttX. Vela provides unified software services on various IoT hardware platforms, supports rich components and easy-to-use frameworks, and opens up fragmented IoT application scenarios.




Image source: Xiaomi official website

The Vela system mainly has the following features:

Efficient performance: Based on the NuttX core, Vela has the characteristics of high real-time performance, low power consumption, and low latency, and is suitable for various resource-constrained embedded devices.

Rich components: Vela provides a variety of commonly used components, such as network, audio, video, graphics, security, etc., to facilitate developers to quickly build applications.

Easy-to-use framework: Vela provides a unified application framework, supports scripting languages ​​such as Lua and JavaScript to develop applications, and provides rich APIs and documentation.

Internet of Everything: Vela supports multiple communication protocols and standards, such as Wi-Fi, BLE, Zigbee, MQTT, etc., and provides Xiaomi Miaoxiang technology to achieve seamless connection and collaboration between devices.

The open source of Xiaomi Vela will bring new opportunities and challenges to the IoT industry. For developers, they will have more options to customize development according to their needs and creativity. For the industry, this will promote the rapid development and innovation of IoT technology and bring more possibilities to fields such as smart homes and smart cities.

At the 2023 Xiaomi IoT Ecological Partner Conference, Xiaomi officially announced the new technology brand "Xiaomi Pengpai Zhilian" for the entire ecology of people, cars and homes. It is reported that Xiaomi Pampers Zhilian now has 9,000+ brand ecological partners, and the number of access platform devices has reached 655 million.



Image source: Xiaomi mobile phone official Weibo

Daily Economic News integrated Xiaomi mobile phone official Weibo, Lei Jun Weibo