Share this article Share this article ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This IoT RTOS market report evaluates opportunities for RTOS and their use in embedded IoT systems including hardware, software, and firmware by market segment and industry verticals. It includes an assessment of peripherals and tools to support embedded system processing in the IoT RTOS market. It also assesses vendors, platforms, and solutions including both open source and proprietary RTOS. A Real-time Operating Systems (RTOS) is an OS that manages hardware resources, hosts applications, and processes data on a real-time basis. RTOS defines real-time task processing time, interrupt latency, and reliability of hardware and applications, which is especially important for low-powered and memory-constrained devices and the networks/systems that depend upon them. The key difference between RTOS and a general-purpose OS lies within the former's high degree of reliability and consistency in terms of timing between application's task acceptance and completion as compared to the latter.