

Document which devices work and which don’t.However, I was enlightened by a stranger on Reddit - you can run Windwos IoT Core pretty much on any computer! Microsoft just does not bother explaining it properly! Goals You might protest that off -the shelf devices don’t have GPIOs, but one can use a microcontroller over USB.įor a long time I was lamenting the fact that there are only 3 supported boards on the official website.

Bigger devices, this can be both good an bad.If you go to Android AOSP route, that’s not an issue, but it’s also a lot more work. Unlike a Kiosk app, there is no system UI sitting around that needs to be locked down.It will update your app using the Microsoft Store mechanism, while you can’t really use Google store to do the same in embedded applications.You can’t really call any system that cannot be updated secure, there are constantly kernel vulnerabilities being discovered. It does not suffer from driver issues that prevent Android from receiving OS updates.Windows IoT core has some advantages over embedded Android: This mostly the land of Android or Windows embedded. You can use Windows IoT here, but there aren’t many obvious benefits.īut there are more interesting device, ones that are interactive, have a touch-screen and require user to do stuff.

There are IoT devices like your router, that that just sit inside a box, do their thing, don’t have a screen and never deal with the user directly.
