Peridio’s Avocado OS is an embedded Linux distribution built on the Yocto Project, designed specifically for teams shipping physical AI products and connected devices. Instead of treating the OS as a generic base image, Avocado OS treats it as part of the product, focusing on deterministic builds, reproducible runtimes, secure boot, disk encryption, and OTA-friendly layouts so fleets stay consistent from prototype to volume deployment. The goal is to give embedded teams a developer-friendly environment that still behaves like a production-grade Linux stack for edge AI hardware. https://www.peridio.com/avocado-os/
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In this interview, the team explains how Avocado OS sits between Ubuntu/Debian and vanilla Yocto: you keep the binary-package ergonomics during development while still generating immutable images for production. That means you prototype and debug in a familiar Linux environment, then freeze the exact stack into a deterministic runtime without a six-month porting exercise. Because the same tooling supports hardware-in-the-loop testing, retargeting to new boards, and manufacturing modes, it is aimed at shortening the path from R&D lab to automated factory manufacturing.
The demo on the show floor represents a small industrial line: dual robotic arms pick and place candy onto a conveyor according to a user’s preference profile. An LLM and computer-vision pipeline infer pick paths offline at the edge, combining perception and simple task planning. Under the hood, Avocado OS is running across several nodes: a Seed Studio reTerminal DM, an NVIDIA Jetson AGX handling heavy vision workloads, and an Advantech smart camera with a Jetson Orin NX module. Together they illustrate how the same embedded Linux distribution can span HMI, real-time control, and high-throughput inference in a single line.
The interface itself is implemented as a WebKit-based HMI, serving a JavaScript application locally on the device. That approach lets teams reuse standard web development skills for industrial touchscreens and kiosks instead of committing to a proprietary HMI stack. Beyond Jetson, Avocado OS targets platforms like NXP i.MX and Raspberry Pi, and can coexist with microcontroller-based subsystems for ultra-low-power tasks, making Linux the control plane for heterogeneous edge AI hardware stack.
On the business side, Avocado OS is fully open source, with Peridio offering commercial LTS, OTA update orchestration, fleet observability and device management for long-lived products. That combination of immutable, security-hardened images (secure boot, dm-verity, LUKS), controlled rollouts, and remote diagnostics is aimed at operators who need to manage thousands of industrial robots, smart cameras, or HMIs over many years. As more edge AI workloads move to Linux, Peridio positions Avocado OS and its management layer as a way to keep development agile while keeping deployed fleets predictable at the edge.
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