Powered by Zephyr firmware the Tibbo Project System is a highly flexible, modular hardware platform for building industrial controllers and IoT devices.

The Tibbo Project System (TPS) is a highly flexible, modular hardware platform designed for building custom industrial controllers and IoT devices. Instead of relying on fixed-function hardware, TPS is built around a “plug-and-play” architecture using small, prepackaged modules called Tibbits. Each Tibbit provides a specific function-such as analog input, serial communication (RS232/RS485), relays, or sensors-allowing developers to assemble only the functionality they actually need.

At the core of every TPS device is a Tibbo Project PCB (TPP), which contains the processor, memory, networking interfaces, and sockets for Tibbits. Developers can then insert the required Tibbits and optionally house the system in a Tibbo Project Box (TPB) enclosure, resulting in a fully customized, production-ready embedded system.

This modular approach offers several advantages:

– Cost efficiency: You only pay for the hardware features you actually use
– Scalability: Systems can be easily modified or expanded by swapping modules
– Rapid prototyping: Hardware configurations can be quickly assembled and iterated upon.
– Reduced engineering overhead: No need to design custom PCBs or enclosures from scratch

Zephyr was an ideal platform to provide our modular firmware generation platform to maximize the coverage of hardware that we support.
In essence, Tibbo TPS and AppBlocks (supporting Zephyr) together form a full-stack embedded development ecosystem:

- TPS provides customizable, modular hardware
- AppBlocks provides intuitive, visual firmware development

By combining these two, developers can move from concept to deployment with minimal friction, dramatically accelerating time-to-market while maintaining flexibility and scalability.

Dmitry SlepovManaging Director, Tibbo Technology Inc.