More than 60 percent of a new vehicle's cost comes from its advanced electronics and software systems. Since many of the human-machine interface (HMI) functions guided by these electronic systems are mission-critical, it's essential that all automotive systems work together with complete reliability.

These days, almost anything involving a device connected to a mobile or cloud application is being called an Internet of Things (IoT) application. Examples like smart home and retail applications leverage a combination of sensors, gateways, and cloud application to implement measurement and analysis applications.

There are challenges in achieving high precision and accurate sensing at low to high flow rates in metering applications such as flow meters as well as distance measurement and level detection applications. Ultrasonic sensing technology is outstanding at measuring flow velocity and using an integrated analog-to-digital converter (ADC) provides the ability to accurately measure flow even at the lowest rates.

Modern businesses use a multitude of assets to manage their day to day operations. .

Given the influx of IoT devices flooding the market, getting your product to market quickly and having your product stand out against the competition are key to success. Learning how to design, build, deploy, and manage your devices takes time and knowledge.

Connecting operational systems with the higher-level IT or cloud systems is a key challenge facing the next generation of Industrial IoT and Industrie 4. 0 systems.

Internet of Things applications are advancing past prototypes and proof of concepts into commercial use. As these systems get deployed, the security architecture enters a new danger zone with high stakes if a security breach occurs.

Commercial processors and FPGAs promise and deliver performance advantages for military communications systems, sensor applications, radar, and electronic warfare programs at a lower price point than custom-designed systems. But to accomplish that performance they must generate a lot of heat and even with power-saving techniques added by the chip manufacturers the thermals still are too high for use in military battlefield systems.

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) landscape today is a confusing mix of proprietary connectivity technologies and standards. Some are general purpose, some are mostly appropriate for enterprise applications, and others are optimized for a narrow set of domain-specific use cases in vertically integrated systems.

Every developer is in search of an embedded operating system platform that boasts performance and security, which are the hallmarks of the new QNX Software Development Platform 7. 0.