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The Embedded Systems and The Internet of

Things

By Milica D. Djekic

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a quite new concept dealing with the devices being connected to each
other and communicating through the web environment. This concept is gaining its popularity amongst
the embedded systems that exist – let’s say – 10 or more years back. The main applications of these
systems are in mechatronics that is a synergy of electrical and mechanical engineering as well as
computer science. Through this chapter, we intend to discuss how the entire IoT concept could get
applied to the embedded systems as well as mention some aspects of their security in order to clarify all
sorts of risks and threats being present within those paradigms.

What are the embedded systems?

The embedded systems are still a quite recent concept that is only the part of a long-term technological
evolution we are witnessing during the last several decades. The entire new revolution would start with
the digital systems and first logic gates being used for that time – pretty robust electronic devices. As
time would go on – the devices would get more and more sophisticated and today we have so simple
and helpful solutions. The embedded systems are nothing else – but computing systems in small –
usually dealing with the microcontrollers being the central processing unit to some electronic board.

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