When viewed as a whole, many embedded systems, particularly in automobiles and aircraft are by their nature distributed: they are connected to sensors and actuators in various different parts of the ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

You can find real-time operating systems (RTOS) everywhere. They are as ubiquitous as their more familiar operating-system cousins – Windows, Mac OS and Unix – that control software applications and ...

The next wave of the Internet won’t be about people. The Internet of Things (IoT) will connect machines and devices together into functioning, intelligent systems. It promises to transform many ...

If you listen to enough conference talks, vendor pitches, and analyst pronouncements, you can be forgiven for assuming every organization on the planet now can sense and respond, in real time, to ...