Most embedded to become IoT
Richard Quinnell
EDN -- September 14, 2016
Last week the sale of ARM to Japan's SouthBank Group became final, and ARM has disappeared from the stock market to become just another division of the telecom giant. SouthBank's intent is to position itself to address the paradigm shift in communications and computing known as the Internet of Things. This positioning may have great significance for embedded developers.
There's an important distinction arising. Devices that belong to the Internet of Things (IoT) are clearly embedded systems -- there are processor chips in them gathering information and responding algorithmically to control the system's behavior. But two key characteristics of IoT devices – network connectivity and essentially autonomous operation – are not necessarily present in an embedded system. In fact, traditionally they have been absent from most embedded systems, which were designed for stand-alone operation. So, while IoT devices are embedded systems, not all embedded systems are IoT devices.
Yet.
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