Ozeki is an easy to use, efficient platform for robotics applications. If you use Windows on your PC, Android on your Mobile, you should use Ozeki on your Robot. Ozeki enables you to build robots efficiently. It also allows you to control a large number of robots remotely and to organize communication between robots, backend applications and humans.

Business mechanics require you to get to market quickly, and to turn your project into revenue in a short period of time. This is only possible if you can focus on the actual application. Ozeki offers a platform and a set of professional tools, that will make you much more productive and efficient.

Build a business using robots

Start here: How can I build a robot with Ozeki, and how can I control many robots...

Robot developers

When you build a robot, there are four layers to take care of: The base layer is a the microcontroller layer. This layer operates the sensors and motors in real time. Since microcontrollers are cheap (often bellow 1 USD), it is a good practice to use many microcontrollers, to keep the code running in them small and simple. The second layer is the embedded PC layer. The microcontrollers are connected to the embedded pc using serial links or USB. The embedded PC operates Linux and a general purpose CPU, such as an ARM based model. The third layer is the Ozeki Robot OS. The Ozeki Robot OS gives you an abstract layer to controll all your hardware using messages. If a sensor reads a reading it sends a message, if you wish to control a motor, you will send a message to the motor. This Robot OS allows you to focus on you app, which is the top layer.

Hardware control with messaging

One of the greatest advantage of using Ozeki 10 for building your robots is getting the ability to focus on your app. You can speed up robot develpoment signifacantly, because you can concentrate on the actual business application. In Ozeki 10 every sensor, motor, actuator is treated as a messaging endpoint. These endpoints are called "Connections". When you write a robot control app, all you have to do is process text messages comming form sensors, and send text messages to other sensors to take appropriate action. When you use Ozeki, you don't have to worry about understanding the low level electrical properties of each sensor, and you will not end up debugging registers, low level microcontroller code and performing many other time inefficient tasks. To build a successful robotics business you must focus on your app and your app must be indepdenent of the low level physical characteristics of the parts.

Robot collaboration with messaging

Advanced tasks often require robot collaboration. The messaging system of Ozeki 10 allows you to setup a system where robots can send messages directly between each other. These inter-robot messages can use a Wifi Lan, the Internet or a local radio communication link.

Centeral control with messaging

Your robots might be behind firewalls on remote networks. If you want to control them, you can rely on the messaging system provided by Ozeki Robot OS. The Ozeki Robot OS can deliver messages to and from your robots over the Internet. Messages can be used to instruct the robots to do firmware updates, to collect usage patterns from the robots to be able to improve functionality. They can be used for error reports, and supply requests.

User control with messaging

Your customers will require you to offer them a smartphone app they can use to control their robots. Ozeki 10 makes it possible for Android smartphones to send and receive messages to robots. You can use the chat interface offered by Ozeki, or you can write your own smartphone app, and simply use the messaging system of Ozeki.

Browser based GUI

Desktop users, operators and developers will be happy to login to your robot using a webbrowser. Ozeki 10 robot OS allows you to login using by simply opening an URL. In the Graphical User Interface (GUI), you can check the status, and test each individual sensor. You can also see message logs and live system resource graphs. You can also develop a browser based GUI application for your robot.

Develop using C#.Net

If you wish to develop robot control apps in Ozeki Robot OS, your best option is to use C#.Net. You can use the built in Ozeki Robot Studio development environment through the webbrowser GUI, or for more advanced projects you can setup Microsoft Visual Studio on Windows. Since the entire robot control is done using messaging it is very easy to build robot based solutions efficiently. If you wish to use Ozeki Robot OS in eduction, you have the option to use SNAP. SNAP is a visual drag and drop programming language similar to Scratch. In SNAP you have all the sensors registered as blocks, and you can create simple robot control algorithms in minutes. For education purposes SNAP is also integrated with the Lego EV3 robotics platform.

Add your custom sensors

Allthough Ozeki 10 already supports hundreds of sensors, motors and actuators, you might want to add your own custom built sensor or a sensor not yet supported. In this case you have two options. You can develop the neccessary code for your part, or you can ask Ozeki to do it for you. In both cases the time it takes is very short and it worths the effort.

If you are a robot part supplier, you can list your sensors, motors, actuators and other robot parts for robot builders in the Ozeki store. If you offer a part that is already supported, or is compatible with a supported part, your job is very easy. All you have to do is list your product. If you device is not yet supported, develop a driver for it. It will pay off, because you will get access to many robot developers, who will likely be your returning customers.

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How to use my sensor?

Analog Sensor Learn how to add an analog sensors, based on voltage change, to your robot, and how to use the "read" message.

Button Learn how to add buttons and digital inputs to your robot. Learn about how "on","off" messages are triggered.

Optical gate / proximity Learn how to add optical gates for detecting proximity or movement. These sensors use a photo diode and an IR led to trigger events in Ozeki 10.

Ultrasonic distance sensor Learn how your robot will receive the measured distance as a text message containing a number representing the distance in millimeters. .

Lidar (Laser / 2D) Ozeki 10 supports lidar sensors. These sensors create a 2D map of a room or the surrounding environment.

GPS receiver Ozeki 10 supports GPS receivers. These receives push messages containing coordinates and time information.

Gyroscope sensor Learn how to use accelerometer and gyroscope sensor data in Ozeki 10. This data can be acquired for example from the MPU6050 chip.

Joystick Learn how to use a wired analog joystick with multiple axes and button inputs as an input sensor to control your robot.

Bluetooth/USB gamepad Learn how to use and USB or Bluetooth gamepad connect to your PC or mobile phone to control your robot.

Capacitive touch buttons Find out how you can add capacitve touch buttons, such as the MPR121 capacitive touch keypad to your robot.

NFC, RFID reader Learn how to use NFC tags, and NFC communication in your robot by adding an NFC sensor, such az MFRC 522 or PN 532.

Rotary encoder A rotary encoder is a button you can turn or press. When you turn the button, it will send "left" or "right" messages.

Buzzer If you send a "beep" message to the buzzer sensor, it will play a beep sound. You can also send messages with frequencies and durations.

Microphone Learn how to use a microphone connectio to record audio in your robot. Recorded audio can be later processed or forwarded to an application as a message attachment.

Speech to Text Speech recognition works well in Ozeki 10. You can define a set of words you expect and Ozeki will report which one was heard.

Speaker Add a speaker to your robot and play live audio streams, or previously recorded audio files. Often used for voice prompts.

Text to speech Learn how to send simple text messages to your speaker, to use text to speech voice prompts for your robot.

Temperature sensor Learn how DHT11, DHT22 and other ditigtal temperature and humidity sensors can be added to your robot.

PID temperature controller This Ozeki 10 connection can measure temperature and turn the heater on or off using the PID control mechanism (often used in 3D printers).

DC Motor Learn, how you can use various DC motors in your robot. A popular controller is the L298N motor driver chip.

Servo motors Ozeki 10 makes it very easy to control servo motors, by sending the desired angle in degrees, such as "45" as a text message.

Stepper motors Learn how to operate several stepper motors in a synchronized way, by sending messages containing the number of steps for each axis.

Switch relays Learn how to turn on and off relays by sending "on" and "off" messages to them, or how to trigger an impulse, or setup a state for a specific time period.

LCD display In Ozeki 10 you can use simple 2 line or 4 line LCD displays, and you can go up to high colour true color displays.

VR headset Learn how to add a VR headset for robot control, and live VR/AR streaming in Ozeki 10. You can use stereo or mono video input and present it in the VR headset.

RGB LED Learn how to use HTML hexadecimal color codes and colour names as messages, to set the colour of RGB leds or RGB led strips in your robot.

IR remote Learn how to receive infra red (IR) signals from remote controllers, and how to transmit such signals from Ozeki 10.

RF 2.4 GHz transceiver How to setup the high speed, RF 2.4 GHz transceiver in Ozeki 10. This connection is based on the NRF24L01 module often used by drones.

RF transmitter / receiver Learn how to work with RF 433Mhz/315Mhz RF remotes. How to transmit and receive signals, by simply sending/receiving messages.

GSM modem Learn how to send and receive SMS text messaging using a GSM modem attached to your robot.

SMPP IP SMS To send SMS notifications from your robot you might want to connect to the SMS center of a mobile network operator using the SMPP protocol.

UCP IP SMS To send SMS notifications from your robot you might want to connect to the SMS center of a mobile network operator using the UCP protocol.

CIMD2 IP SMS To send SMS notifications from your robot you might want to connect to the SMS center of a mobile network operator using the CIMD2 protocol.

USB camera Learn how to add a USB camera to your robot and how to transmit video streams. Learn how to control such a camera with messages, such as "record".

Barcode camera Learn how to setup a USB camera as a barcode scanner to scan various barcode formats and QR codes.

Circle detection camera Detecting circles in an automated manufacturing process is useful. Learn how to setup your USB camera as a circle detection device.

Face detection camera Detecting human faces in a captured frame of a USB camera. Ozeki 10 will send a messag containing the rectangles coordinates.

Line detection camera Detecting lines in captured frames of an USB camera. Ozeki 10 will send a messag containing the coordinates.

Car license plate detection Detecting car license plates with a USB camera. Ozeki 10 will send a messag containing the OCR text of the license plate.

Motion detection camera Learn how to detect motion using an USB camera in your robot. Find our how the level of sensitivity can be adjusted.

Email connection Learn how your robots can send and receive e-mail messages trigger by physical events detected by sensors.

Phone call Learn how to start and receive voice calls to desktop or mobile phones using the built in phone system of Ozeki 10.

Note: There are many other sensors supported by Ozeki. If your sensor is not in the list, there is a good chance that it is still suppoted, connect it to your system, and see if it is detected automatically. It is also important to mention, that Ozeki offers great, open source examples, that make it very easy to add new sensor types. Feel free to contact us at info@ozeki.hu if you have questions regarding a particular sensor.

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