The Attraction of WebAssembly for Embedded Industrial Software

Born in the browser, WebAssembly (Wasm) has immense potential to revolutionize software development and deployment for embedded industrial systems.

Unlike traditional containerization technologies like Docker, Wasm-based application containers do not require Linux as a foundation and are portable across any silicon architecture, including MCU-based devices with as little as 1MB of memory. Applications can be developed in different languages (e.g. C, Rust, Golang) and execute on devices in isolated containers, providing greater security and IP protection. Individual containers can be fractionally updated on devices without requiring a reboot or impacting the overall code base.  

These attributes enable software for resource-constrained industrial devices to be developed, deployed, managed, and maintained using modern cloud-native methods. Benefits include greatly reduced development complexity and cost, improved security and uptime, and simplified ecosystem collaboration – especially when implementing new technologies like on-device AI/ML.   

Join this webinar hosted by ARC Advisory’s Patrick Arnold and the co-founders of Atym to learn more about the technology, key benefits and use cases in the embedded space, and industry collaboration among the likes of Bosch, Emerson, Siemens and Atym to facilitate standardization.