'Intelligent' Embedded Systems for the New Era of Industrial Apps Part 1: Understanding the connected factory of the future & next-gen industrial apps November 2012 Brian Bailey The factory floor Factories attempt to build products for the lowest cost Quality and flexibility are highly desirable attributes The automated factory floor today Manual labor replaced by machines Higher throughput and quality Single function Usually single product Higher initial cost The connected factory Increased flexibility Multiple products Centralized control Tied to supply chains Problems with todays factory Most stations in the factory are designed for one job Each station is proprietary and self contained Increasingly difficult to maintain Very little communications All of this is changing as things become intelligent Embedded systems 6 Embedded systems updated 7 What is a connected embedded system? 8 What is an intelligent connected embedded system? 9 In the context of a factory 10 The Internet of Things (IoT) 11 Intelligent automobiles 12 The pieces 13 Sensors 14 Smart sensors 15 Actuators / transducers / displays Change data into Heat Motion Pictures Sound 16 Smart output 17 The Cloud Hierarchy 18 The Cloud WAN LAN Personal Network Sensors Connectivity Near Field Bluetooth, RFID, WiFI Wired Ethernet, USB Wireless CDMA, GSM, Satellite, GPS Network Cloud 19 Many considerations 20 Processing 21 Management functions Remote monitoring Self diagnosing systems Maintenance warnings Tolerance variation Connection to other systems Supply chain 22 Evolution 23 User Driven: User Driven: Enterprise + Consumer Enterprise + Consumer Machine Driven: Machine Driven: Internet of Things Internet of Things Further reading 24