Developing OS is as difficult as making chips, says Huami CEO Huang Wang on Zepp OS

Jeet — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 10:05:58 +0000

Xiaomi-backed smartwatch and fitness tracking device maker Huami Technology held a new product launch event in China where the company has unveiled a new self-developed operating system — Zepp OS.

This newly launched Zepp OS is developed upon FreeRTOS microkernel open-source code. The system package size is around 55MB only which is about 1/10th the size of Amazfit OS used by Huami Technology.

The company is projecting the Zepp OS as not only a smartwatch operating system that is powering the hardware but as an open health management platform. Huang Wang, CEO of the company says that the difficulty of making a smartwatch operating system is actually no less than that of making a chip.

Huami has done both of these “difficult” things. Along with announcing its new self-developed operating system for wearable devices, the company has also launched Huangshan 2S which is the industry’s first dual-core RISC-V wearable chip.

Having the company’s own operating system ensures that the software is optimized to perform better compared to using an existing system and implementing it on the device. Optimized software is what offers a good performance out of the hardware.

It is claimed that the operating system reduces operational power consumption by 65 percent and increases battery life by 190 percent compared to the preview version, which offers an overall improved user experience for wearable devices.

Further, Zepp OS integrates many different functionalities, including support for dynamic dials with smooth motion effects and different interfaces. Most of the interfaces on the watch achieve more than 60FPS, and the animation effects are smooth, delicate, and vivid, allowing users to watch every time they interact with each other.

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Developing OS is as difficult as making chips, says Huami CEO Huang Wang on Zepp OS