The era of self-driving and Internet of Vehicles is coming.

The global market of self-driving and Internet of Vehicles will reach 800 billion US dollars in 2030. At present, many manufacturers in the world have invested in the development of technology in the field of self-driving vehicle platforms, including Intel and IBM.

A self-driving car, also known as an autonomous car, or driverless car, is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving with little or no human input. An automated driving system is a complex combination of various components that can be defined as systems where perception, decision making, and operation of the automobile are performed by electronics and machinery instead of a human driver.

Automated driving systems combine a variety of sensors to perceive their surroundings, such as radar, computer vision, Lidar, sonar, GPS, odometry and inertial measurement units. Furthermore, this kind of complicated system includes handling of the vehicle, destination, as well as awareness of surroundings. While the automated system has control over the vehicle, it allows the human operator to leave all responsibilities to the system. Advanced control systems interpret sensory information to identify appropriate navigation paths, as well as obstacles and relevant signage.

Introducing an automated driving system is of great benefit for transportation businesses in several perspectives, for example, it would reduce operating costs, traffic collisions, and needs for parking space, but it would increase safety, mobility, customer satisfaction, the fuel efficiency of the vehicles, and optimized insurance costs. All benefits are significant to organizations and businesses.

Because automated driving systems are so complicated and sensitive, the automated driving system integrators need partners with years of experiences in network appliance and in-vehicle computer. Acrosser technology, founded in 1987, is a pioneer in the evolution of industrial computing. For several decades, ACROSSER has provided innovative network appliances and in-vehicle computer solutions to over thousands of customers, helping them reducing the time-to-market and gaining higher competence to win the market.

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Research for tele-health and embedded system

Go to doctor’s office. Wait. See embedded computer Primary Care Physician. Get tested. Wait. Get referred to specialist. Get retested. Wait. Get referred to another specialist. Wait. See how much insurance covers. Pay accordingly.

This is just one example of why telehealth strategies are poised to revolutionize medicine. Telehealth not only provides quick access to specialists, but can also remotely monitor patients and reduce clinical expenses. Many of the systems needed to realize these benefits will operate on the edge, and require technology with the portability and price point of commercial mobile platforms, as well as the flexibility to perform multiple functions securely and in real time. All of this embedded computer must be provided in a package that can meet the rigors of certification and scale over long lifecycle deployments.

refer to: http://smallformfactors.com/articles/qseven-coms-healthcare-mobile/

Card sized SBC

The initial goal in creating the Raspberry Pi credit card sized, Linux-based Single Board Computer (SBC) – targeted primarily at education – was to develop a response to the decline of students engaging with computer science and related engineering disciplines. Our desire was to reverse the trend of children becoming consumers rather than creators. The following case study follows the hardware development process from an early failure, initial prototypes, and through to the finished production design.
Over recent years there has been an increasing trend for children to be consumers of digital content rather than be future creators or engineers. This trend is driven by manufacturers looking to provide a seamless experience for target customers on a variety of electronic platforms, from gaming consoles to tablets and laptop computers. As a result, access to raw I/O has become restricted. Similarly, any packaged provision of a programming environment is an anathema to the products’ commercial goals. The knowledge required to create “hello world” or flash an external LED has become simply too vast and the opportunity to learn vital skills such as structuring/codifying ideas and debugging has been largely subsumed by a click-and-shoot world. Any motivation to get under the hood and see how these products work is largely dissipated by the impenetrable barriers presented by these “locked down” systems.

refer to :http://embedded-computing.com/articles/case-card-sized-sbc/

Checking things from a embedded perspective

These are huge numbers and embedded computer within such a large population insider risk is a real threat. A provider needs to provision its services with proper governance to prevent insider threats. Broad network access is one of the most interesting characteristics from a embedded computer perspective, as so much of the embedded computer is focused on rigid, tightly controlled networks such as service-specific portions of NIPRNet and SIPRNet rather than on open network access like the Internet at the other extreme. The key is for services to be available across the entire embedded computer  and this is largely possible today. The problem is as soon as access is broadened, it increases the attack surface, making the idea of a perimeter and a boundary much more nebulous.”

refer to : http://mil-embedded.com/articles/cloud-security-the-dod/

Clouding your mind inception

Pentek (www.pentek.com) signal processing products have found embedded computer homes in U.S. Navy Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) systems. Pentek products score high with the Navy acquisition system: reducing development time, and acquisition and maintenance costs. The open architecture standards used in these embedded computer enable easier new technology insertion so that the latest technology is available to key Navy programs.

CES – Creative Electronic Systems (www.ces.ch) develops scalable systems, using COTS principles, with modular functional units. These modules are widely used in commercial, military, and unmanned aerial vehicles for test, simulation, airborne mission, and primary flight computer systems.

refer to: http://vita-technologies.com/articles/embedded-trends-high-flying-design-wins/

Experimental static analysis for embedded system

About Embedded System:

Continuous Integration-Time (CI) static analysis

After running integration-time static analysis, software engineers should have a stronger sense of potential systemic problems in the code. The next step is to run CI static analysis to enforce the coding policy outlined in the planning phase. This prevents the types of defects discovered during integration-time analysis.

For every issue discovered in static analysis, there are at least 10 more of the exact same thing in other places in the code. Static analysis is the ideal tool for addressing all violations of the same kind at the same time. This is opposed to chasing every possible path through the code. It’s far better to find the systemic problems in order to create an environment in which bugs cannot survive.

When we talk about static analysis, in many cases we mean anti-pattern analysis. A positive pattern is something that should be in the code. For example, a policy that requires engineers to use a typedef when declaring function pointers is a positive pattern static analysis rule[1]. This is in contrast to a policy that, for example, prohibits the use of the data() member function from a string class when interfacing with the standard C library.

refer to: http://embedded-computing.com/articles/getting-leveraging-right-static-analysis/

How to reshape embedded technology?

 

Although embedded devices destined for industrial applications have a wide range of design requirements due to the diverse environments in which they are deployed, almost all systems need some form of wired or wireless communications capabilities. Stand-alone industrial embedded devices are relatively rare, as users now demand remote access for data collection, management, maintenance, troubleshooting, software updates, and system security. For example, businesses need to monitor and collect real-time operational or throughput statistics from individual devices to evaluate the performance of manufacturing systems and methods.
Complex embedded systems can automatically run maintenance and diagnostic routines to evaluate reductions in performance and remotely schedule hardware updates. Many remote systems also require some type of security or surveillance features to detect and possibly prevent physical or virtual attacks. The challenge for embedded designers is to find the right communications technologythat delivers reliable, high-performance connectivity in an industrial environment with possible noise, extended temperatures, shock/vibration, and interference.

REFER:
http://industrial-embedded.com/articles/communication-reshape-embedded-technology/

The AMB-N280S1 is supported by Intel Atom N2800 1.86GHz

 

AMB-N280S1, which carries Intel dual- core 1.8 GHz Atom Processor N2800. Acrosser takes advantage of Atom Cedar Trail N2000 series processor in design, such as low power consumption and small footprint as former Atom series.

Intel Atom Processor N2800 provides more powerful graphic performance by less power consumption. AMB-N280S1 can support both two displays to maximum resolution 1920 x 1200. It also offers the 18-bit LVDS interface for small size LCD panel.

AMB-N280S1 Features

‧ Intel Atom N2800 1.86GHz
‧ 1 x DDR3 SO-DIMM up to 4GB
‧ 1 x VGA
‧ 1 x HDMI
‧ 1 x 18-bit LVDS
‧ 4 x USB2.0
‧ 6 x COM (5 x RS-232, 1 x RS-232/485)
‧ 2 x GbE (Realtek RTL8111E)
‧ 1 x KB/MS
‧ 1 x Mini-PCIe slots
‧ 1 x SATA
‧ 8-bit GPIO