no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . february 2015 rt rk type private industry consumer electronics and automotive software founded 1991 headquarters novi sad serbia key people vladimir kovacevic ceo nikola teslic cto milenko beric cfo products home automation internet of things testing of set top box and multimedia devices set top box devices services embedded software tv software dsp software product development small scale production automotive software set top box testing fpga rapid prototyping ui ux design ip technical expertise number of employees 500 website www.rt rk.com rt rk is a r & d company and national research institute that delivers development services and own products in the arena of real time embedded systems with strong focus on consumer electronics and automotive . headquartered in novi sad with offices in belgrade serbia banja luka bosnia and herzegovina and osijek croatia with over 500 engineers rt rk is one of the biggest development houses in southeast europe . rt rk is professionally engaged in embedded system design tv software development automotive software development digital signal processing dsp ui ux design product development including small scale production testing of set top box stb and multimedia devices and fpga rapid prototyping . contents 1 digital tv software 2 home automation internet of things 3 bbt black box testing 4 near shore development centre nsdc 5 customers 6 national r & d institute 7 beginnings 8 locations 9 references 10 external links digital tv software edit android set top box development by rt rk the company s journey in digital tv began in 2001 with joint venture with micronas germany to develop software for their tvs . with time the serbian development center transformed from an extended workbench approach towards a system supplier becoming a full micronas subsidiary to deliver complete software solutions for digital tv and take over significant support responsibility towards micronas customers . when micronas closed down their consumer business unit it left rt rk fully independent and continuing with tv software development serving a wide international customer base . rt rk was the first company to announce successful porting of the big endian version of the android operating system for the mips architecture facilitating soc manufacturers with the power of android targeting market of digital tvs dtv set top boxes stb and a range of applications in the digital home . 1 recognizing the company s experience and potential for strategic partnership zoran corporation singled out rt rk for porting android onto their system on chip soc joining forces in development of multimedia applications and services for connected tv . 2 to channel its business in digital tv software development in 2011 rt rk becomes a shareholder of iwedia a swiss based company and operates as system integrator on set top box and tv software products based on their dvb middleware . in 2012 rt rk announces cooperation with general satellite on their set top box gs 8305 deployed on the network of tricolor tv 3 which from scratch to mass production was developed by rt rk . mass production of the box in their factory in kaliningrad has been tested by the rt rk s bbt set top box testing products . strong android background that gave birth to the company s native approach for smooth and easy integration of iptv and broadcast tv dvb atsc functionalities inside tv and stb devices powered by the android operating system called android4tv made google conclude an agreement with the company to provide integration services to google partners wishing to deploy google tv in their products . 4 android set top box deployments continue with swisscom iptv stb 5 and bouygues telecom bbox miami hybrid box with google mobile services google play store google music chrome youtube google play movies certified by google . 6 in september 2014 the company makes android4tv software framework open source facilitating tv operators worldwide with the benefits of leveraging of android openness flexibility and developers community . 7 powered by the engineering strength of rt rk iwedia concludes many successful projects including sat ip server 8 and linux based h. 264 set top box based on stmicroelectronics liege chipset 9 both boxes being produced by rt rk . having profiled as a leading tv software developer rt rk continues operations providing services to other players in the digital tv world some of them being smardtv 10 vidmind 11 and wyplay . 12 home automation internet of things edit oblo home automation by rt rk oblo is an end to end home automation solution by rt rk which enables a full featured home automation scenario for the home including centralized automation via the control hub and the cloud automation apps mobile web to control home from any place any time connectivity among wide variety of home devices zigbee z wave wifi set of ready made devices to automate lighting and energy consumption blueprints for adding smarts to devices oblo is scalable and allows the selection and customization of components to make the home automated in just the right way . oblo off the shelf components oblo white label product resell of existing hardware home gateway automation devices plug socket dimmers switch microdimmer scene controller licensing oblo software home gateway software applications web mobile stratus iot cloud maintenance and service agreements oem hardware home gateway as standalone device integrated within stb or tv proprietary 3rd party devices software components home gateway software applications web mobile stratus iot cloud custom development powerline sat ip bt nfc etc. integration customization maintenance and service agreements consumers can automate their homes by using the available off the shelf oblo products . set top box manufacturers and service operators can add value to their device by enabling it to become a home control hub using oblo white label solutions . retailers 13 can create a new home automation product line and market it under their own brand using oblo white label solutions . bbt black box testing edit bbt automated stb and multimedia testing by rt rk rt av100 for set top box testing by rt rk bbt the line of rt rk products codenamed bbt provides testing equipment and services to all the players in the set top box and multimedia devices development and production chain . rt rk offers software platforms for automatized and manual testing specialized hardware components for testing end to end test management system test suites for functional stress and performance tests precertification test suites service of manual testing service of automatized testing testing and certification consulting services to ic vendors software module vendors and system integrators oems odms telecom operators diagnostic and repair facilities since 2009 bbt supports the entire digital tv product life cycle from marketing through to development production and qualification superseding human testing labor of 600 man days monthly for the largest european and the third largest oem in the world vestel . near shore development centre nsdc edit rt rk is a strategic partner and near shore development centre nsdc of cirrus logic 14 imagination technologies wyplay zenterio and vestel in the consumer electronics industry and tttech in the automotive industry . customers edit rt rk has served companies such as cirrus logic zoran corporation csr smardtv mips imagination technologies trident marvell bosch sensortec atmel micronas vestel metz loewe general satellite kathrein ps ufa siemens microsoft plantronics logitech sharp nec nuance sagem purple labs strom telecom t mobile swisscom abb openwave telvent srbijagas tridinetworks philips control4 coller capital altran rafael dmist technologies audiocodes university of sheffield starkey red typhoon hil tttech bouygues telecom wyplay novabase . national r & d institute edit ministry of science and technological development of the republic of serbia accredited rt rk computer based systems llc as a national research and development institute . in their explanation advisory committee stated that the scientific programs of rt rk contribute to development of new products and devices introduce new and improve existing technological processes systems and services and perform transfer of knowledge and technology . the company has adequate deployment of competent scientific researchers programs for young developers and adequate facilities equipment and other resources for the implementation of programs of general interest . beginnings edit in 1991 a small group of professors and assistants working at the university of novi sad faculty of technical sciences chair for computer engineering launched first projects for telephony and digital signaling protocols ssno7 isdn on dss1 d channel . their interest for business further evolved to automation processes in serbian oil industry where they were involved in projects for gas pipeline management . recognizing the benefits of the university environment they started a company named ftn iram rt. close cooperation of ftn iram rt with the university of novi sad attracted micronas german company to launch micronasnit within the same environment and with the same management . having become a micronas subsidiary micronasnit entered the era of expansion in dsp fpga and digital tv technology . in 2005 serbia investment and export promotion agency siepa awarded micronasnit as the biggest exporter of the year in sme small and medium enterprises category . 15 experience and knowledge in new technologies customer service and world wide market access opened the door for new customers emerging the need for a new business model to render the services . the new circumstances gave rise to foundation of a new company rt rk . in april 2009 rt rk bought micronasnit becoming the largest serbian company for embedded system design . locations edit rt rk headquarter in novi sad rt rk in the university campus rt rk in belgrade rt rk in banjaluka rt rk in osijek references edit rt rk delivers ip solution for android devices porting android on dtvs and stbs . bloomberg . retrieved 2015 01 27 . zoran corporation reports second quarter 2011 results . digital tv news . retrieved 2015 01 27 . iwedia set top box solution enters mass production with general satellite . digital tv news . retrieved 2015 01 27 . iwedia selected by google as software integrator for google tv . digital tv news . retrieved 2015 01 27 . swisscom android iptv set top operated by iwedia software . digital tv news . retrieved 2015 01 27 . iwedia software for bouygues telecom android tv stb . digital tv news . retrieved 2015 01 27 . iwedia makes android4tv software framework open source . digital tv news . retrieved 2015 01 27 . iwedia to unveil full range of sat ip products at ibc 2013 . digital tv news . retrieved 2015 01 27 . iwedia provides linux based h. 264 stb software for st s liege chipsets . digital tv news . retrieved 2015 01 27 . rt rk provides design services to smardtv for high end media gateway platform . digital tv news . retrieved 2015 01 27 . rt rk to boost dvb t t2 performance of vidmind ott dtt stb . digital tv news . retrieved 2015 01 27 . rt rk joins the frog by wyplay program . digital tv news . retrieved 2015 01 27 . schwaiger to launch novabase oblo based gateway onto the german market . yahoo finance . retrieved 2015 01 27 . cirrus logic selects rt rk as preferred third party audio dsp service provider . cirrus logic . retrieved 2015 01 27 . exporter of the year award . siepa . retrieved 2015 01 27 . external links edit rt rk home page tv software oblo bbt stb retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title rt rk & oldid 742046081 categories consumer electronicssoftware companies of serbiaserbian brandscompanies 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