Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets are constantly present in our everyday lives and have become our permanent companions. As a result, they increasingly shape how users interact with technology — and they are becoming essential for embedded products in two important ways.
First, many embedded systems today require a mobile companion app for configuration, monitoring, diagnostics, or remote operation. Second, users expect the embedded user interface itself to be just as intuitive, responsive, and visually polished as the apps they use every day on their smartphones and tablets.
VEHMI was created to meet exactly these expectations.
VEHMI is a unified platform for developing modern human–machine interfaces (HMIs) for embedded applications — from mobile companion apps on smartphones and tablets to embedded Linux devices and industrial PCs — all based on a single shared codebase.
At the core of VEHMI is Flutter, a modern UI framework that replaces traditional embedded UI technologies such as Qt. Flutter enables fast development cycles, smooth animations, and a consistent look and feel across platforms, while avoiding the complexity, fragmentation, and licensing constraints associated with Qt.
Why VEHMI?
By building on Flutter and a system-level embedded architecture, VEHMI offers decisive advantages for modern embedded products:
- Single codebase across devices
Develop HMIs and companion apps once and deploy them consistently on smartphones, tablets, embedded Linux systems, and industrial PCs. - Intuitive, high-performance user interfaces
Smooth animations, responsive touch interaction, and pixel-perfect rendering meet the expectations shaped by modern mobile apps — even on embedded hardware. - Faster time-to-market
Rapid prototyping, hot reload, and early UI validation significantly shorten development cycles and reduce project risk. - Lower development and maintenance costs
Extensive code reuse, a managed runtime, and modern tooling reduce long-term maintenance effort and total cost of ownership. - Future-proof architecture
VEHMI scales from simple companion apps to complex embedded HMIs and supports long product lifecycles without costly rewrites.
Whether an embedded product requires only a mobile companion app, a fully integrated embedded HMI, or a combination of both, VEHMI provides a flexible and robust foundation for building modern user interfaces that users immediately understand — and enjoy using.