Is an Embedded System a Power player in Industrial Operations?

By Embedded Advisor | Monday, January 13, 2020

From standardizing the production processes to upgrading abilities of aerospace, the embedded system stands as a key in various industrial realms.

FREMONT, CA: The evolution of embedded systems can be seen as the deeply rooted part of industrial operational infrastructures. The coming future promises multiple benefits and advancements in the industrial sector with the adoption of embedded systems. In the widely connected and smartly functioning world, embedded technology has become an essential part of operational infrastructure. The popularization of electronic devices, high-tech tools, and smart applications across corporate buildings, manufacturing and production units, and even at the personal level, has created massive opportunities for business expansion of embedded systems.

In recent years, embedded systems are successfully designed to improve specific functions based on different industrial requirements, including control systems, automobile machines, highly secured and efficient military systems, smart medical equipment, and various automation devices.

Embedded system developers understand the need for flexible designs and hence continuously contribute to combining features of different technologies like automation, AI, and data analytics to make the products and its services more intelligent and robust. The best examples of advanced embedded systems are Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV) and Electric Vehicles (EV), which present the features of advanced navigation, driver assist, and vehicles-to-street communications.

Today, high-volume embedded systems and computers are primarily used for performing complex and standard operations of various industrial equipment and devices like manufacturing robots, production machinery, aircraft, submarines, and more. Overall, embedded systems prove to be a ripe technology, which delivers steady advancement of powerful processors and enables the next-generation solutions into action. Embedded system-driven intelligent devices help the industrial production systems and process plants to contribute and become a part of digital transformation while saving huge capital from cutting down the cost of hiring resources and implanting multiple solutions.