Innovative business models for embedded systems.
Monetize advanced features in your embedded systems with Orion’s license-management capabilities.
Embedded licensing, done right
Transcend simple per-unit perpetual-license business models
Embedded licensing isn’t just node-locking. Ship advanced features under subscription, feature, utility-pricing, and per-feature floating-pool models — or any combination.
Rapid porting of licensing software to any embedded system
Orion’s C/C++ client libraries have been ported to non-standard embedded platforms in under two weeks for leading embedded-system vendors.
Streamline your operations from manufacturing to distribution
Install an initial license on the device at the final manufacturing step. Customers later activate additional features themselves as they purchase them.
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What Orion gets you in embedded systems
Why embedded systems need software licensing
The common objection — "the hardware can’t be copied, why node-lock?" — is mostly true, though a well-equipped fab can in fact clone many hardware/firmware systems. More importantly, licensing isn’t just node-locking. Subscription, metered, feature, and combination models all require licensing technology at some layer. Orion delivers all of those non-intrusively, plus the cases that do require under-the-covers node-locking — for example, floating-license pools spread across large device fleets.
New business models
Integrating Orion lets you sell advanced features under subscription or usage-based pricing and offer floating-license pools across device fleets. Multiple features, policies, and pools combine into a single complex license configuration — without complicating distribution or activation logistics.
Cutting manufacturing cost
The conventional approach — one SKU and one assembly line per priced feature bundle — raises both manufacturing cost and distribution complexity, and locks the business model to perpetual-license-per-unit pricing. Software licensing collapses this to a single SKU and a single assembly line, with features unlocked by license at any point (including after the unit is operational at the customer site) and offered under recurring subscription or metered terms.
Realistic integration on constrained platforms
The constraint on embedded licensing is library availability for non-standard platforms with limited memory footprint and missing OS features — pick a vendor whose product is straightforward to port. Orion’s client library has been ported in under two weeks to VxWorks, embedded Linux, and flash-memory-based environments with no OS, no system clock, and no traditional file system.
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