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These units could get found nearly everywhere including mobile technologies, traffic systems,
mechatronics devices, medical equipment or portable solutions.

The smart equipment is mainly the part of a developed world, while some of those systems already got
used in a developing society. The best possible example to describe which of the devices being exposed
to the web use the embedded technology is to mention the case of medical devices being the quite
common target of the hacker’s attacks. This equipment is usually correlated with each other and normally
has the access to the internet. Many studies, researches and conference efforts would talk about how
that sort of devices got vulnerable to cyber attacks. So, in other words – the majority of embedded
systems got threatened from the hacker’s community. Being online or not – the embedded technologies
could get hacked and if they are on the web, that would mean they are the part of the IoT.

So commonly, we would use the expression an IoT-driven embedded systems meaning by that the
embedded systems being capable to talk to each other or use the web signal to deal with some
computer’s units. Their microcontrollers frequently deal with the microprocessors that got a quite similar
role as standard processors within some computer’s systems. The majority of today’s experts would call
the IoT-driven embedded systems – the smart digital solutions – and, for real, those systems would have
many advantages and offer a certain level of convenience to their users. If we would talk about the
hacking of those devices – we should mention that there could get used different strategies that would
provide the access to those devices and use some of their weaknesses to get control over them.

As we would suggest before, all of those solutions would be digital and use the electricity to obtain their
operations. In other words, this equipment would deal with some sort of electromagnetic field which could
be affected applying the interference or used to detect such a device and conduct the hacker’s campaign
on so. In other words, the main challenge of those smart devices is their cyber defense and for such a
reason – we would appeal on their designers to take into consideration those requirements. At the
moment, there would be some security’s procedures included that would support us to deal with less risk,
but one of the challenges for tomorrow would be to design a solution that would deal with the better
cybersecurity.

The IoT-driven embedded systems

Through this chapter, we would mention the IoT-driven
embedded systems suggesting they are nothing else – but
smart digital solutions talking to each other through some
communication means. For the communication purposes,
we can use the standard internet protocols being wired or
wireless or another way of the signal carrying. The internet
itself would rely on many signal carriers and almost any
sort of electromagnetic wave could serve as a carrier of the
information. For instance, many variations of the wireless
internet would use radio signals, while satellite
communication systems would deal with the X-band range.

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