[Logo Mark of ITRON] Questionnaire on ITRON Use Trends

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1. Please enter your name, company, position, address, telephone number, email address and country.
Name
Company and position
Address
Telephone number
Email address
Country
2. What kind of work do you do? Please choose one of the following.
Management, planning
Design, development
Inspection, quality control
Sales engineering, sales support
Other

If you chose "Other" please specify below.
3. We would like to know about the three most important embedded systems projects you (or your company) have developed recently. For the first of these, please answer the following four questions by entering your answers at System A.
  1. What is the application field?
    *For the application fields please see Table.
  2. What is the bit size of the microcontroller or microprocessor used?
  3. What is the approximate size of the software program?
  4. What OS is used?
    *Please classify an ITRON-specification OS as a commercial ITRON OS even if it was developed by your own company, so long as it is sold outside your firm.
System A
Application
field
CPU used
Program size
OS used
If you chose "Other commercial OS" please specify.

If you are answering about more than one system, enter responses for the second and third system at System B and System C respectively.

System B
Application
field
CPU used
Program size
OS used
If you chose "Other commercial OS" please specify.

System C
Application
field
CPU used
Program size
OS used
If you chose "Other commercial OS" please specify.

4. What are the problems you (or your company) face in using a real-time embedded OS? Please mark the biggest problem as number 1, and others as numbers 2 and 3, in order of importance.

1 2 3
An absence or shortage of
staff familiar with the technology.
Major differences in OS specifications,
making it hard to switch.
Performance and functions
do not meet our requirements.
OS size or resources used are too large.
Lack of a development environment and tools.
Cost is too high.
Inadequate vendor support.
Other.
If you chose "Lack of a development environment and tools" please answer the following. What specific tools are lacking?

If you chose "Other" please specify.
5. What are the criteria you (or your company) use in choosing a real-time OS? Mark the highest priority criterion as number 1, and others as numbers 2 and 3, in order of priority.

1 2 3
Is widely used in the industry.
Has a proven track record in our company.
Supports a wide range of chips.
Performance and functions match our requirements.
Small OS size and resource use.
Good development environment and tool support.
Low cost.
Good vendor support.
High reliability.
Other.
If you chose "Other" please specify.
6. Which of the following best expresses your familiarity with ITRON? Please select one only.
Have used or developed an ITRON-specification OS.
Have never used or developed an ITRON-specification OS, but have investigated or studied its use.
Have heard about ITRON, but have never investigated or studied it.
Was not aware of ITRON until now.
7. Please answer the following if you selected either "have used or developed" or "have investigated or studied ITRON" in the previous question.

  1. When you used/developed/investigated/studied ITRON, what did you consider the biggest advantages? Mark the most important as number 1, and others as numbers 2 and 3, in order of importance.
    Advantages

    		1 2 3
    The specifications are easy to understand.
    Supports a wide range of chips.
    High performance.
    Wealth of functions.
    Small OS size and resource use.
    Good development environment and tools.
    Many engineers are familiar with it.
    Low cost.
    Good support.
    Other.
    No clear advantages.

    If you chose "Other" please specify.
  2. What do you consider the main disadvantages of the ITRON OS? Mark the most important as number 1, and others as numbers 2 and 3, in order of importance.
    Disadvantages

    		1 2 3
    The specifications are difficult
    to understand.
    Too many implementation-dependent parts
    making it hard to port.
    Not enough chips are supported.
    Inadequate performance.
    Inadequate functions.
    OS size and resource use are too big.
    Lack of
    a development environment and tools.
    Lack of engineers familiar with it.
    High cost.
    Poor support.
    Other.
    No notable disadvantages.

    If you chose "Other" please specify.
8. Please select all of the following ITRON-related activities that you are aware of.
Booths or presentations at trade shows and exhibitions.
ITRON Open Seminar
ITRON home page
ITRON Newsletter
Registration System for ITRON-specification Products
µITRON3.0 specification
µITRON3.0 compatibility check sheets
ITRON Technical Committee
TRON Project Symposium
TRONSHOW
TRONWARE
ITRON Club mailing list
9. Please select all of the following areas where you would like the ITRON subproject to become involved.
Interface standards for software objects (middleware)
Standardization of interfaces with development environments (esp. debuggers)
C++ and JAVA language binding standards
Network support
Multiprocessor support
Hard real-time support
Fault tolerance support
Free ITRON-specification OS
Holding training seminars
Other

If you chose "Other" please specify.
10. Please indicate any other opinions or wishes you have regarding ITRON activities.
11. The results of this questionnaire will be posted on the ITRON home page (http://tron.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp/TRON/ITRON/). We will also send the results to those requesting them. Would you like us to send you the results?
Send by email.
Send by regular mail.
Do not send.
12. Would you like us to send you notices of the ITRON Open Seminar and other events?
Notify by email.
Notify by regular mail.
Do not notify.