
The TRON project, launched in 1984, marked its 40th anniversary last year, and this year, 2025, marks a new step forward into the next decade.
TRON Project has evolved from the development of real-time embedded devices, through the interconnection of edge nodes, to an IoT platform.
Now, through big data analysis and precise control by cloud integration, TRON is realizing a wide variety of applications for industrial use such as smart homes and smart cities.
The theme of 2025 TRON Symposium is “TRON x AI 2.” Various examples of innovation through integration with AI will be presented, including embedded system development environments that utilize generative AI, building OS and housing OS API standardization and AI integration, public transportation open data utilization, and IOWN, which is becoming more practical.
This year's TRON Symposium will discuss the new possibilities that TRON Project will open up through its deeper fusion with generative AI for the next 10 years. Through keynote speeches and sessions, the event will provide an opportunity to share front-line technology trends and practical knowledge, and to envision the future of TRON Project.
The theme of 2025 TRON Symposium is again “TRON x AI” building on the last year's theme. We will have a more in-depth discussion in this sequel, "No. 2".
In this presentation, project leader Ken Sakamura will discuss how this explosive evolution of AI is viewed from TRON's perspective and how it can be integrated. Last year we were at the stage exploring possibilities for collaboration, but this year we are taking it a step further.
Specifically, we will delve deeply into technical challenges such as AI-driven real-time system development support, optimal AI integration configurations for IoT, the nature of adaptive AI required for edge environments, the coordinated operation of the "TRON" real-time OS family and edge AI, and the architecture for implementing AI in social infrastructure.
What kind of new society will emerge from the fusion of this revolutionary technology and the technologies from TRON Project?
We present a vision of the future.

Introducing the optimal development environment for IoT edge nodes, centered around the real-time OS “µT-Kernel 3.0,” which fully complies with the global standard “IEEE 2050-2018.” The latest version of “µT-Kernel 3.0” enhances security support critical for IoT edge nodes and now supports Arm microprocessors' TrustZone. Conventional multitasking applications with superior real-time performance can now carry out secure program execution.
We will also introduce an “Embedded System-Specific AI Assistant” that integrates AI agents with specialized knowledge of embedded system development environments, as well as applications for smart buildings that collaborate with AI.
TRON Project has also been building platforms for applications. The projects are introduced in collaboration with the Association for Open Data of Public Transportation (ODPT) on the application of open data collaboration, and Association for IoT Services Coordination, a general incorporated association (AIoTS) to promote Personal Data Store (PDS) as a basis for collaboration among services, Open Smart UR Study Group to establish an ideal housing platform for the digital age, Organization for Vitalization of Local Economy by Digital transformation, a general incorporated association (VLED) to realize digital transformation (DX) in local regions, enPiT-Pro for recurrent education, etc.
Activities of government such as the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in Japan and overseas activities in cooperation with TRON Project are introduced.
Seminars are held at the exhibition venue.