Microcontrollers, or MCUs, are transforming consumer goods, industrial automation, infrastructure and more — essentially reshaping how we interact with the world around us. With MCUs you can easily control everything from your refrigerator to your thermostat. At ICS, a quarter of the projects we work on include at least one MCU and most projects incorporate several — so we understand the potential MCUs hold. We’ve designed this webinar to introduce you to this tiny technology and show how it can be implemented using various approaches. Here are the topics we’ll address:
Overview of MCUs and their features
Current scope of MCU-based applications
Convergence of microcontrollers and microprocessors
Peripherals available and protocols used in today´s projects
Bare-metal vs RTOS
Until recently, MCU firmware also had to leverage concurrency. However, today real-time operating systems, such as FreeRTOS, can provide multitasking. We’ll compare these approaches.
Possibility of running Python on microcontrollers
Challenges in firmware implementation (with example code)
Application fragments implemented with the ubiquitous ESP32 MCU
Network-enabled demo that connects to a Mender server and retrieves over-the-air updates
Industry 4.0 is marrying industrial automation with smart technology, artificial intelligence (AI), and modernized human-machine interfaces (HMI) to create a better-connected and more optimized ecosystem for conducting business.
While this real-time data empowers businesses to leverage real-time data to boost productivity and improve processes, there is evidence that if done wrong the technologies that create the foundation for Industry 4.0 can fail to address the needs of businesses.
Join Toradex, Boston UX, and AMETEK Crank for this one-hour panel discussion to learn what challenges should be considered by embedded developers looking to create devices targeted at Industry 4.0 and the best practices for creating secure, user-friendly graphical user interfaces from the operating system on up for a future where smart machines are integrated into business processes.
During this session, you’ll learn:
What is Industry 4.0 and who is it right for?
Why is a modernized HMI application vital for Industry 4.0?
What methods are there for introducing system updates or upgrades (OTA)?
How can it be applied to your business?
Featured speakers:
Matthew Ellis - Senior Software Architect, Boston UX
Boris Savic - Associate Director of UX, Boston UX
Daniel Lang - CMO, Toradex
Thomas Fletcher - Co-founder/VP of Innovation, AMETEK Crank
