'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 today’s 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