MicroEJ (pronounced "micro-EDGE") is a French-American software vendor with headquarters in

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, France and offices in

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, USA. It was founded by Fred Rivard in 2004. It is known for developing MICROEJ VEE, a Virtual Execution Environment for

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development and other software development tools such as the

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MICROEJ SDK.

History

Fred Rivard founded MicroEJ under the name Industrial Smart Software Technologies (IS2T). MicroEJ established its offices in

in 2016. At the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), MicroEJ announced plans to release an app store platform for IoT devices. MicroEJ partnered with Groupe SEB to integrate MICROEJ VEE into its

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products in 2021. In the same year, MicroEJ also partnered with

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to offer a MICROEJ VEE platform on NXP's i.MX RT500 MCU for

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. At CES 2022, MicroEJ launched the first containerized software platform for

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and industrial devices connected using the Matter protocol. In 2022, MicroEJ also partnered with

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to offer MICROEJ VEE on the Thales Cinterion IoT Module and

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IoT Devices. MicroEJ also partnered with

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to develop Telit IoT cellular modules' software development ecosystem.

References

{{Reflist Companies established in 2004 Software companies of France