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What is Embedded Systems

Global Perspectives on Robotics and Autonomous Systems: Development and Applications
Devices such microcontrollers that have several peripherals like computers: ports, modules, memory, and processors. Also mostly of them have their own operating system.
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Security Systems Using Machine Vision
Guillermo M. Limon-Molina (Universidad Politécnica de Baja California, Mexico), E. Ivette Cota-Rivera (Universidad Politécnica de Baja California, Mexico), Fabian N. Murrieta-Rico (Universidad Politécnica de Baja California, Mexico), Miguel E. Bravo-Zanoguera (Universidad Politécnica de Baja California, Mexico), Maria E. Raygoza-L. (Universidad Politécnica de Baja California, Mexico), Abelardo Mercado-Herrera (Universidad Politécnica de Baja California, Mexico), and Jesus Heriberto Orduño (Universidad Politécnica de Baja California, Mexico)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-7791-5.ch004
Abstract
Surveillance systems are image acquisition systems that use commercial security cameras fixed at specific locations in stores, houses, or warehouses to enhance safety and protect staff, assets, and buildings. Although these systems are good security options, a temporal secure area or nearby mobile needs an alternative personal monitoring solution that can be constructed by using the smartphone multimedia resources to access a PC's machine vision software, providing a tool for surveillance. In this chapter, an application is developed using only a smartphone camera and a pattern matching algorithm to detect presence of people in a secure area; when presence occurs, a signal is sent to start a recording and/or activate an alarm to warn the users. A virtual instrument algorithm application was able to detect objects in a room, recognizing who are residents and who are guests. The functionality of this project with encouraging results obtained provides a flexible security instrument.
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Feasible Automatic Reconfigurations of Real-Time OS Tasks
An embedded system is a computer system designed to perform one or a few dedicated functions often with real-time computing constraints. It is embedded as part of a complete device often including hardware and mechanical parts. By contrast, a general-purpose computer, such as a personal computer (PC), is designed to be flexible and to meet a wide range of end-user needs. Embedded systems control many devices in common use today.
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On the Use of Stochastic Activity Networks for an Energy-Aware Simulation of Automatic Weather Stations
Computing devices embedded within systems whose general goal is different from the simple data elaboration, for example ABS devices in cars.
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Ambient Intelligence Environments
Embedded Systems means that electronic and computing devices are embedded in current objects or goods.
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Reconfigurable Embedded Medical Systems
A special purpose system that usually has limited resources (memory, computational power, and bandwidth) and is usually dedicated to a specific task.
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Evolution of Malware in the Digital Transformation Age
An embedded system is a combination of computer hardware and software designed for a specific function or functions within a larger system.
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Optimal Preemptively Scheduling for Real-Time Reconfigurable Uniprocessor Embedded Systems
A computer system designed to perform one or a few dedicated functions often with real-time computing constraints
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Software Engineering for Mobile Multimedia: A Roadmap
An embedded system is a special-purpose computer system, which is completely encapsulated by the device it controls.
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