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smart cities market includes smart homes, smart buildings, smart
grid, smart industry automation, smart healthcare, smart education,
smart transportation and smart security.
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System overview: Figure 1 shows detailed block diagram of an
embedded system. As shown in the figure, foundation block is
various types of hardware components, esp. microcontrollers,
special function ICs and various other programmable devices. Second
important layer is of hardware and board level circuit, which is
customized for dedicated application of the system.The third layer
is of firmware or application specific software, which is burned
(or programmed) into the core processor (micro-controller) on the
main-board. This firmware also works as a device driver, which
drives various peripheral devices, attached to the system; whether
mechanical or electrical in nature. Real Time Operating System aka
RTOS is an optional block here, which is not present in all
OpportunitiesTwo core parts of any embedded systems are its
hardware and firmware or software inside the core processing
unit.However, many hardware platforms have reached their
configuration potential and are saturated in terms of adding new
things that cannot be added using firmware. Additionally at the
advent of open source hardware platforms and quick prototyping and
building blocks of hardware systems not much differentiation can be
made by just the hardware system.This means software or firmware is
now a key differentiator; since any new feature or specification
can be easily tackled or added using software changes.Clearly, now
the software has to play critical role of differentiation,
innovation and future enhancements in embedded systems. The ratio
of contribution by firmware and hardware, which was 30-70 (30%
firmware & 70% hardware) earlier has now become almost 50-50
and is expected to grow further as hardware reaches its saturation
in due course.
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