The Internet of Things is a quite new concept dealing with the devices being connected to each other and communicating through the web environment.
This concept is gaining its popularity amongst the embedded systems that exist - let's say - 10 or more years back.
The main applications of these systems are in mechatronics that is a synergy of electrical and mechanical engineering as well as computer science.
Through this chapter, we intend to discuss how the entire IoT concept could get applied to the embedded systems as well as mention some aspects of their security in order to clarify all sorts of risks and threats being present within those paradigms.
The embedded systems are still a quite recent concept that is only the part of a long-term technological evolution we are witnessing during the last several decades.
The entire new revolution would start with the digital systems and first logic gates being used for that time - pretty robust electronic devices.
The embedded systems are nothing else - but computing systems in small - usually dealing with the microcontrollers being the central processing unit to some electronic board.
These units could get found nearly everywhere including mobile technologies, traffic systems, mechatronics devices, medical equipment or portable solutions.
The smart equipment is mainly the part of a developed world, while some of those systems already got used in a developing society.
The best possible example to describe which of the devices being exposed to the web use the embedded technology is to mention the case of medical devices being the quite common target of the hacker's attacks.
In other words - the majority of embedded systems got threatened from the hacker's community.
Being online or not - the embedded technologies could get hacked and if they are on the web, that would mean they are the part of the IoT. So commonly, we would use the expression an IoT-driven embedded systems meaning by that the embedded systems being capable to talk to each other or use the web signal to deal with some computer's units.
Their microcontrollers frequently deal with the microprocessors that got a quite similar role as standard processors within some computer's systems.
The majority of today's experts would call the IoT-driven embedded systems - the smart digital solutions - and, for real, those systems would have many advantages and offer a certain level of convenience to their users.
Through this chapter, we would mention the IoT-driven embedded systems suggesting they are nothing else - but smart digital solutions talking to each other through some communication means.
Many variations of the wireless internet would use radio signals, while satellite communication systems would deal with the X-band range.
These sorts of communications could get applied to the embedded systems making them being linked to each other and communicating using those waves.
We all would rely on computers, digital devices, embedded systems, smart solutions, internet and mobile technologies, so it's crucially significant to take care about our security's aspects.
At the end, it's so important to highlight that the embedded systems are something that exist in our world at least a decade back and only new thing is that the current time would make those systems talking to each other.
That's how we would come to the IoT-driven embedded systems which would become one of our today's imperatives.
This Cyber News was published on www.cyberdefensemagazine.com. Publication date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 05:58:11 +0000