TRON Forum
Admission Guide
TRON Forum
TRON Forum (Location: Shinagawa, Tokyo, Chair: Ken Sakamura, Professor Emeritus, the University of Tokyo) was established in
2002 to promote TRON Project which aims to realize the open Internet of Things (IoT) free from constraints of organizations andapplications based on “open source,” “open data” and “open API.” The forum has conducted vigorous activities led by Chair
Sakamura focusing on T-Engine Project that aims to improve the development environment of embedded systems andoperating Ubiquitous ID Center which promotes and disseminates ubiquitous ID architecture and its component technologies
such as ucode.
Chair Sakamura was honored with an ITU150 Award (*1) in 2015 for proposing TRON open
architecture, the pioneering work of ubiquitous networking and the IoT. He was the only
winner in Asia among the six winners that included Bill Gates. The Institute of Electrical andElectronic Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), the world's largest institute of electrical and electronicengineers, adopted an OS for IoT devices based on µT-Kernel 2.0 as an IEEE standard as"IEEE 2050-2018 (*2) in 2018. The forum has established "TRON IoT Vulnerability Advisory
Center (TIVAC)" in 2019.
In January 2023, Project leader Ken Sakamura received the "IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer
Technology Award" (*3) , and the "TRON Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) family" wasrecognized as an IEEE Milestone (*4) in May 2023. These are all indications of the high regard
that the IEEE has for TRON Project eﬀorts led by Chair Sakamura. TRON Project celebrates
its 40th anniversary in 2024. The activities of TRON Forum, an organization to promote theproject, are highly regarded around the world, and its applications have expanded not
only on the earth but also in space.

TRON Forum Chair: Ken Sakamura(*1) On the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of International Telecommunication Union (ITU: the United Nations specialized agency for information andcommunication technologies (ICTs), HQ: Geneva, Switzerland), ITU150 Awards were launched to recognize individuals past and present from government, ICT
industry, academia, and civil society that have contributed to improving lives of world citizens through ICT innovations developed, promoted or implemented
by ITU.（https://www.itu.int/en/150/Pages/awards.aspx）(*2) "IEEE 2050-2018" is available on the following website of the IEEE STANDARDS ASSOCIATION. https://standards.IEEE.org/standard/2050-2018.html(*3) Vew Award Recipeients at URL: https://corporate-awards.ieee.org/award/ieee-masaru-ibuka-consumer-technology-award/(*4) A list of the IEEE Milestone winners in Japan is available at the following website. https://ieee-jp.org/activity/jchc/milestone̲jusho.html

Member Beneﬁts
Member categories
TRON Forum oﬀers the member categories shown in Table 1: Executive Committee, A-, i-, B-, e-, O-, Academic, Supporting and Liaison.
• Those who want to participate in the Executive Committee which decides the operation policies of the forum should join as
Executive Committee members.
・ Companies which would like to conduct standardization activities through discussions in working groups (WGs) should join
as Executive Committee or A-members.
・ Companies in the IoT-related business should participate in the forum as Executive Committee, A-, or i-members.
Companies in the open data-related business should participate in the forum as Executive Committee, A-, or O-members.
・ Companies in the embedded systems industry in need of receiving the outputs of the forumʼ s activities early shouldparticipate in the forum as B-members.
・ e-member category should meet the needs of those involved in the promotion of ubiquitous computing.
・ Those in academia can participate in the forum as Academic members without membership fee. They may also participate
as i- and/or O-members at their request.
・ General incorporated associations, general incorporated foundations, etc. that coordinate with TRON Forum's activities canparticipate in the forum as Liaison members.
・Companies that can ﬁnancially support TRON Forum's activities can participate in the forum as Supporting members.
The forum members can access software and related documents, etc. prior to the eventual release to the public, and accessmembers-only documents.
Table 1

Member categories and activities of TRON Forum
Member category

Activity content

Executive
ACommittee
members members

imembers

Bmembers

emembers

Omembers

Academicmembers

Liaison Supporting
members members

Participation in Executive
Committee meetings

✓N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Participation inGeneral meetings✓✓✓✓✓✓

N/A△*1✓

Participation in Marketing
Committee meetings✓✓

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

△*1N/A

Participation in WGs

✓✓

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

△*1N/A

Participation in IoT WG

✓✓

✓

N/A

N/A

N/A

✓

△*1N/A

Participation in Open Data WG

✓✓

N/A

N/A

N/A

✓

✓

△*1N/A

Participation in Seminars

✓✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

△*1✓

Executive Committee-members-only web pages

✓N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

A-members-only web pages

✓✓

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

i-members-only web pages✓✓✓N/A

N/A

N/A

✓

N/A

N/A

B-members-only web pages

✓✓✓

✓

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

e-members-only web pages

✓✓

✓

N/A

✓

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

O-members-only web pages

✓✓

N/A

N/A

N/A

✓

✓

N/A

N/A

Academic members-only
web pages

✓

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

✓

N/A

N/A

Liaison members-only
web pages

✓N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

✓N/A

Supporting members-only
web pages

✓N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

✓ucode Allocation（General）✓✓✓

N/A✓N/A✓N/A✓

ucode Allocation（Provider）

✓✓

✓

N/A

✓*2

N/A

N/A

N/A

✓

Monthly e-mail magazinedistribution✓

✓✓

✓✓✓✓

✓

✓

*1: Can participate if approved by the Executive Committee*2: If three shares or more are paid

The IoT (Internet of Things)
TRON Project was the worldʼ s pioneer to conduct the research anddevelopment (R&D) and technology standardization activities ofubiquitous computing and embedded systems, theimportant technologies to support the IoT. The project has
been conducting them since 1984, almost 40 years ago. Theproject has produced fruitful results such as ITRON
speciﬁcation OS and T-Kernel which are real-time OS kernels,
ubiquitous ID architecture which is the application platform ofubiquitous computing, and ucode which is a standard ID system for
ubiquitous computing.

M Corp.
H Corp.

N Corp.

IoT-Aggregator
S Corp.

P Corp.

In recent years, these results of the technology development have been
disseminated to the world, and have been used widely in the ﬁelds calledwith the keywords such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Machine-to-Machine(M2M) and Cyber-Physical System (CPS). TRON Forum has established IoT WG todeploy the research results even further. Executive Committee members, A- andi-members can participate in it. We look forward to the participation of those who
actively promote the IoT.

M Corp.

P Corp.
P Corp.

IoT-Aggregate
Dashboard
N Corp.

H Corp.

S Corp.

TRON IoT Vulnerability Advisory Center (TIVAC)
An urgent issue is to develop the system of Computer Security Incident
Response Team (CSIRT) to deal with the security problems of IoT devices, suchas exempliﬁed by "URGENT/11," a vulnerability problem of the TCP/IP
protocol stack. Therefore, TRON Forum has established "TRON IoT
Vulnerability Center (TIVAC)" to collect and disseminate security vulnerability
information on the general IoT systems, devices and other embeddedsystems as well as TRON-related ones widely and quickly.

Open data
Open data is data version of public infrastructure, so to speak: API to access highly public data
is published, and such data is made available via network. TRON Forum has established Open
Data WG to promote open data.

Embedded systems
TRON Forum B-member category should meet the needs of manufacturers of embedded products, providers of developer
tools, OSs and middleware, and those who conduct business in the embedded systems ecosphere such as semiconductor
vendors, etc. There are material, software, etc. released only to the members involved in embedded systems, such as "T-Kernel
2.0 AeroSpace" and "T-Kernel Test Suite."

Ubiquitous computing
If you are interested in ubiquitous ID architecture that uses ucode, which is an ID system to allocate unique ID to objects, places
and concepts across the boundaries of companies and industrial sectors, please participate in the forum as e-member.
e-members can receive allocation of 48-bit (281 trillion) ucode space without additional fees.

WG activities
There are Working Groups (WGs) in TRON Forum as below. Executive Committee members and A-members can participate in
all the WGs. (i-members and O-members can participate in related WGs.) We look forward to your active participation in theforumʼ s standardization activities.
• T3 WG

Expand the use of µT-Kernel 3.0 based on IEEE 2050-2018• ITRON SWG

Perform maintenance of ITRON speciﬁcations.

• Quasi-zenith Satellite WG

Speciﬁcation and reference implementation of GNSS API for TRON OS• IoT WG

Review, deployment and dissemination of "Aggregate Computing Architecture"• Open Data SWG

Examine various technical issues, institutions, etc. for open data.

• Education and Research WG

Hold seminars related to embedded systems, the IoT, and open data, and holdworkshops and other activities.

• Research and Study WG

Survey embedded Real-time OS usage trends and report the result.

TRON Forum Annual Fee andValidity Period of Membership
TRON Forumʼs activities are held on an annual basis fromApril 1 to March 31. Irrespective of the timing of participation,
the membership is valid only for the applicable year.
The annual fee for each member category is as follows.
If you enroll after the third quarter (from October 1 to March31), you will be eligible for the "Reduced Annual Fee." For thedetails, please contact the secretariat.

TRON Programming Contest
Under Way
TRON Forum has been holding the "TRON ProgrammingContest" with prizes of total amount of ﬁve million Japanese YENin collaboration with four major microcomputer manufacturers
at home and abroad. This is a programming contest that uses
µT-Kernel 3.0 for engineers and students in Japan and abroad.
For more information, please visit the following website.
https://www.tron.org/ja/programming̲contest/

Executive Committee A-members that pay 3,000,000 yen or moremembers
A-members
One share 1,000,000 yen/year(Please pay one or more shares.)i-members
One share 300,000 yen/year(Please pay one or more shares.)B-members
One share 100,000 yen/year(Please pay one or more shares.)e-members
One share 100,000 yen/year(Please pay one or more shares.)O-members
One share 100,000 yen/year(Please pay one or more shares.)Academic members
FreeLiaison members
FreeSupporting members Please contact us.

µT-Kernel 3.0 Seminar
TRON Forum holds seminars that introduce µT-Kernel 3.0, areal-time OS for IoT edge nodes, from basics to application. For
more information, please visit the following website.
https://www.tron.org/ja/seminar/µT-Kernel 3.0 BSP
TRON Forum has released Board Support Package (BSP) that implements µT-Kernel 3.0, a real-time OS for IoT edge nodes oncommercial oﬀ-the-shelf CPU boards.
• µT-Kernel 3.0 BSP is available from GitHub.
https://github.com/tron-forum/mtk3̲bsp• Supported Microprocessor Boards
https://www.tron.org/tron-project/what-is-t-kernel/hwinfo/(From left to right) STM32L476 Nucleo-64, RX65N Renesas Target Board, STM32H723 Nucleo-144, RX65N Renesas Starter Kit+, and Raspberry Pi PicoInquiries

TRON Forum Secretariat Oﬃce
In YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory, SEIJITSU BLD-1, 2-12-3, Nishi-Gotanda, Shinagawa, Tokyo 141-0031, JapanPhone: +81-3-5437-0572 / FAX: +81-3-5437-2399 / E-mail: oﬃce@tron.org / URL: https://www.tron.org/

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