What can you expect from the Zephyr Project at the embedded world Exhibition & Conference 2026? What demos will ecosystem members showcase? And what makes this year especially exciting for the Zephyr community?
From March 10–12 in Nuremberg, Germany, the embedded community will once again gather for one of the world’s leading events for embedded systems, bringing together engineers, developers, researchers, and industry leaders to explore the latest technologies and real-world applications.
The Zephyr Project will be present at embedded world 2026 in Hall 4, Stand 4-170, where ecosystem members will present demos, share insights, and celebrate an important milestone — the 10 year anniversary of the Zephyr Project.
Before diving into the demos, you can learn more about the event and Zephyr’s activities here:
- Embedded World Exhibition & Conference 2026 – Event Page
- Embedded World Conference 2026: Zephyr Project Workshop and Sessions
Alongside the exhibition booth activities, the embedded world Conference will feature a dedicated Zephyr track, including workshops and technical talks exploring real-world use cases, development workflows, safety certification, migration from other RTOSes, and more.
But if you are visiting the Zephyr Project booth, one of the highlights will be the demos presented by Zephyr ecosystem members. These demonstrations showcase how Zephyr RTOS is being used across industries, hardware platforms, and real-world embedded applications.
Below are some of the demos you can expect to see at the Zephyr Project booth.
At the booth, ecosystem members including Antmicro, Nordic Semiconductor, Silicon Labs, NXP Semiconductors, Renesas Electronics, AC6, inovex GmbH, Doulos, Beningo Embedded Group, Alif Semiconductor, STMicroelectronics, Blecon, Microchip Technology, and Percepio will showcase live demonstrations running on Zephyr RTOS.
NXP Semiconductors:
Demo 1: Mirror and Control an Android Phone Using Zephyr on the i.MX RT1170:
This application demonstrates how to mirror and control an Android phone using an i.MXRT1170 EVK running Zephyr. The Android device’s screen is captured, encoded as MJPEG, and streamed over Wi‑Fi or Ethernet to the i.MX RT, where it is decoded and rendered on the LCD. Touch input is also supported, enabling users to interact with and control the Android phone directly from the touchscreen of the i.MX RT crossover MCU. Learn more.
Demo 2: Streaming Bluetooth Classic Audio with Zephyr (A2DP Sink):
Experience Bluetooth Classic audio streaming on the i.MX RT1170 paired with the IW612 using an A2DP sink application developed and upstreamed by NXP into the Zephyr project. This demo allows a phone or laptop to stream audio in real time, showcasing a fully open source Bluetooth Classic audio pipeline running natively on NXP hardware. Learn more.
Renesas
Smart oven demo:
Fluid advanced graphics LVGL smart oven recipes demo on Zephyr RTOS running on Renesas RA8 series MCUs. Learn more.
Antmicro
Demo 1: Real-time profiling and tracing in Zephyr RTOS with Zephelin AI Profiling Library
An open source AI profiling and tracing tool for Zephyr RTOS, co-developed by Antmicro and Analog Devices to facilitate more efficient AI development on Zephyr platforms. Zephelin allows users to trace the execution of their RTOS applications while collecting information about the system state. It tracks and reports statistics specific to executed AI models, using runtimes such as LiteRT or microTVM, providing details on the executed layers, their parameters, used tensors, associated processing time and consumed resources. Data collected in Zephelin can later be visualized and investigated interactively in its associated Zephelin Trace Viewer. Learn more: Blog,
Demo 2: OTA updates and fleet management for Zephyr-controlled MCUs with RDFM
An example Over-the-Air update system for devices with MCUs running Zephyr, based on Antmicro’s open source Remote Device Fleet Manager (RDFM) RDFM is a flexible framework that enables modular, configurable, multi-OS OTA software updates and fleet management for embedded devices. Offering a host of features such as delta updates, granular updates allowing e.g. updating AI models or configuration files, permission levels, and a Web frontend for easy access to devices, packages and groups in a friendly, customizable graphical environment, RDFM is frequently used by customers to manage devices developed with Antmicro and now operating in agriculture, space, industrial and other contexts.
Blog: (1) Implementing the xdelta algorithm in RDFM for more efficient delta updates generation
(2) OTA updates and fleet management for Zephyr-controlled MCUs with RDFM
Demo 3: Space Flight Heritage Aethero NxN Edge Computing Module with Zephyr-controlled payload
Aethero NxN Edge Computing Module, the company’s first space-rated computer for computationally-intensive tasks with real time decision-making capability, co-developed with Antmicro and successfully deployed to LEO in a 12-month rapid product development cycle. Running on companion MCUs, Zephyr is responsible for controlling the operation of the on-board computer that in turn runs Linux on a custom Nvidia Jetson Orin Baseboard, providing 100 TOPS of compute in space.
- Press Release: Aethero and Antmicro form a strategic partnership for the creation of high-performance space-rated modular edge computers using open source
- CubeSat Edge Computing System
- Antmicro
Silicon Labs
Demo: Zephyr Cross-Platform Transition:
Demonstrates how easily a application can be moved between different Zephyr devices, with only minimal changes such as device tree updates. It highlights true cross-vendor flexibility, showing how Zephyr eliminates SDK lock-in and enables seamless migration without rewriting the application from scratch. Learn more.
STMicroelectronics
Multi-pipe Zephyr People Detection demo on STM32N6:
Zephyr based application embedding YoloX model running on NPU enabled STM32N6 using raw bayer camera and streaming over USB with video encoders
Inovex GmbH
From custom hardware design to Zephyr
– custom boards
– custom shields
Demonstrates how software development can already on off-the-shelf hardware and then be moved to custom hardware designs.
The first demo includes an OpenThread Application that connects multiple devices to share information.
The second demo includes an software development example that can run on off-the-shelf hardware which can then be easily ported to custom designs. In this
case the custom design is a shield to further demonstrate how hardware pieces can be mapped to Zephyr representations. Learn more.
Nordic Semiconductor
Demo 1: Bluetooth® Channel Sounding
Reliable and accurate ranging between nRF54L15 and a smartphone with Bluetooth® Channel Sounding. Learn more.
Demo 2: nRF54L Series ultra-low power consumption
Industry-leading Bluetooth LE ultra-low power consumption with nRF54L Series. Learn more.
Connect with the Zephyr Ecosystem
Whether you are exploring Zephyr for the first time or already building products with it, embedded world 2026 is a great opportunity to see Zephyr RTOS in action. The live demos showcased at the Zephyr Project booth (Hall 4, Stand 4-170) highlight how the ecosystem is using Zephyr across a wide range of embedded applications.
Many Zephyr ecosystem member companies are also presenting Zephyr-powered demos at their own booths throughout the exhibition hall, so be sure to stop by and explore those as well.
Visitors will also have the chance to meet Zephyr maintainers, developers, and community members, discuss technical challenges, and learn directly from teams building with Zephyr today.
And if you’re up for a little fun, have you heard about the Zephyr 10-year anniversary scavenger hunt? Stop by the Zephyr booth to participate and you might win some special prizes.
If you’re attending embedded world 2026 in Nuremberg, make sure to visit the Zephyr Project booth to see the demos, connect with the community, and join the celebration.
We look forward to seeing you there.