Embedded Computing

As of January 2010, smart electricity meters are compulsory for all new installations. Utility companies must also offer such meters to their existing customers. Smart meters can perform significantly more functions than the conventional Ferraris meters: They measure current and voltage, store the data, display and transmit these and communicate with other devices. Component manufacturers […]

Home automation, home control, smart or digital home are just different names for comfort, convenience, security and power saving. Power saving systems are of increasing importance nowadays. Even though such systems are very expensive, rest assured that they can also be very cheap if you make them yourself. There are many ways to control a […]

by Robert Berger robert.berger@ReliableEmbeddedSystems.com Intro We embedded people are concerned about meeting all those stringent deadlines as well as debugging our systems which steadily increase in complexity. I’ll write some of my thoughts concerning those topics and some more in a series of articles. Send me your comments and questions. I’ll post the most interesting […]