SWUpdate – Your OTA for Embedded Linux and IOT

Over-the-Air-Updater
for your IOT and Embedded Linux

Extensible and flexible framework to deploy safely software to your devices

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How it works

Update is a must

Security leaks, new features, fix of bugs - all of them requires that your product is able to run relieable and safe updates. SWUpdate is the solution for this.

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Security in Focus

SWUpdate is developed from scratch with security and reliability in mind.

The Update Agent
for IOT

Internet of things means the challenge for companies to supply devices that change themselves according to the needs of the end customers. SWUpdate helps to reach this goal.

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SWUpdate
the update agent in industry

SWUpdate is chosen by many companies to implement updates to their product, for automotive, industries, smarthome or consumer products.

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Large scale OTA
update

SWUpdate connects to backend like Hawkbit for large scale rollouts around the world

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SWUpdate Framework

If you plan to update your device locally or remotely, SWUpdate is the right framework for you. Thanks to its high flexibility, you can tune any aspect of the update and integrate it into your project. SWUpdate does not set any special requirement and it can be integrated in any embedded Linux project. It does not matter if you want to update from a local USB stick, or via a Webserver, or via a fleet management – SWUpdate will fit your needs.

It is easy integrated in Yocto or Buildroot and an official package is also available for Debian.

There are plenty of products in the world running successfully SWUpdate – and as 100% Open Source project there are no runtime licenses at all!

Main SWUpdate Benefits

Thought for Embedded

SWUpdate is thought for Embedded Linux, and it is very careful about using resources. Its small footprint and its very low usage of resources let to integrate on devices with limited RAM and flash. Its zero-copy option allows to install a new software without accessing to the resources of your device and without temporary copies.

Security

SWUpdate is developed with security in mind to avoid that not authorized software can run on your device.

Customizable

You do not change your project for SWUpdate, SWUpdate adapts itself to your project ! SWUpdate is flexible and high customizable and you can tune it and adjust if you have some specific update requirements.

Quality

A large community participates to review of changes and ensures a high quality of code.

Many use cases

You will update from a USB stick, or you need a fleet management systems – SWUpdate provides the right solution for you !

Reduce recall costs

SWUpdate provides safe updates and help you to drastically reduce the need to recall devices from fields.

Update at any step of device's life

SWUpdate can provide ad-hoc updates for each step of the life of your device, from the early development as part of BSP to large scale rollouts in field.

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Main features

SWUpdate is a well established OTA updater for embedded linux devices.

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Authenticity of update

Update packages are signed and verified by SWUpdate to authenticate an authorized and trusted update. SWUpdate supports signing with RSA keys and with cerificates using an own PKI infrastructure.

Rollback

SWUpdate together with the bootloader detects if the installed software is running correctly and rollbacks to previous installed version in case of failure.

Reliable

Atomic update avoids that power-cut and network loss can brick your device.

Zero copy

SWUpdates has a small footprint – if configured, it does not create temporary copies and the incoming packets are directly installed on the storage. The whole process (decompression, decryption) is done on chunks in memory, making life harder for attacker.

Multiple interfaces

It does not matter how you plan your updates. SWUPdate supports offline (USB,SD, etc.) as well as remote (OTA) updates. SWUpdate has an integrated Webserver to upgrade devices like SOHO routers, but it connects to backend (Hawkbit) for fleet deployments. The modular design in SWUpdate allows to add further backends or interfaces in future.

Wide used

SWUpdate is already in many devices in field, providing a reliable way to update your products. Just check a short list of company having integrated SWUpdate in their products – you will be surprised how many devices you can yourself find that are running SWUpdate as OTA updater !

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Full Open Source

SWUpdate is a full open source project – 100% of the code is released under open source license and SWUpdate is integrated and works with other FOSS projects. Commercial support is available : please check our services !

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Connector to Hawbkit

SWUpdate has support to connect to Eclipse Hawkbit for fleet management and rollback of large number of devices.

Extensible

SWUpdate has an integrated Lua interprete to extend its functionality without changing the code. User can deploy extensions to SWUpdate together with the Software for the device.

Community

SWUpdate is chosen by the Civil Infrastructure Platform as OTA updater

SWUpdate Framework

Main SWUpdate Benefits

Thought for Embedded

Security

Customizable

Quality

Many use cases

Reduce recall costs

Update at any step of device's life

Main features

Authenticity of update

Rollback

Reliable

Zero copy

Multiple interfaces

Wide used

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Full Open Source

Connector to Hawbkit

Extensible

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