Embedded has a new development route, you know?

Abstract: With the continuous emergence of innovative applications and demands for IoT-related industrial technology products such as drones, unmanned vehicles, wearable devices, smart homes, and smart cities, basic chips, software, and embedded systems will be proposed more New needs and challenges. Under the concept of Industry 4.0, embedded systems will be more widely used, because there are a large number of electronic control devices in intelligent industrial systems under the concept of Industry 4.0, all of which are embedded systems, such as industrial robots, whose high-performance controllers It is a very complex embedded system. 
The booming development of embedded technology Security issues cannot be ignored 
The application of intelligent hardware drives the booming development of embedded technology. 
Embedded systems are systems used to control or monitor large-scale equipment such as machines, devices, and factories. Typically, an embedded system is an embedded processor control board with a control program stored in ROM. But in fact, embedded operating systems can be seen everywhere in life, and all devices with digital interfaces, such as electronic watches, smart TVs, microwave ovens, video recorders, cars, airplanes, satellites, etc., use embedded systems. According to the industry, the prosperity of intelligent hardware applications directly drives the vigorous development of the entire embedded technology. 
The Internet of Things technology has become the most important topic of electronic information technology in recent years. The application of the Internet of Things technology that has the closest contact with consumers is the application of intelligent hardware that has emerged in the past two years. Whether it is the Internet of Things or intelligent hardware applications, they are all built on the huge embedded system ecosystem. Academician Guangnan believes that embedded systems conform to the latest development needs of the electronic information industry. "In fact, as the three major representatives of the new generation of information technology, the core components of the Internet of Things, cloud computing and mobile Internet all contain a large number of embedded systems. 
Even if you are not at home, you can access home appliances through telephone lines, networks, etc. For remote control, in recent years, the smart home market has been booming. The networking and intelligence of refrigerators and air conditioners will lead people's lives into a brand-new space. Among these devices, embedded systems will be of great use. 
Today, with the rise of the concept of Industry 4.0, embedded systems will play a wider role. It is reported that there are a large number of electronic control devices in the intelligent industrial system under the concept of Industry 4.0. These electronic control devices are embedded systems, such as industrial robots. The high-performance controller is a very complex embedded system; factory automation PLC, which is widely used in China, is actually an embedded system. 
The report "Recommendations for implementing the strategy for Industry 4.0" of the Working Group on Industry 4.0 of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research describes: "Powerful, autonomous microcomputers (embedded systems) are increasingly interconnected wirelessly with each other or with the Internet. "Embedded system technology will have very broad application prospects. 
The rise of the Internet of Things and the security of embedded systems cannot be ignored 
With the rise of the Internet and the concept of Industry 4.0, the application prospects of embedded systems are broad and will be of great use, but everything has two sides, and embedded systems are used in applications. At the same time, security issues cannot be ignored. 
Traditionally, embedded devices consisted of very small chipsets and had a "lite" operating system (usually Linux). For example, the most common embedded device in the enterprise is a USB stick—a device that was used to load the notorious Stuxnet malware, as well as networked printers, and even now hard drive firmware. 
This category of devices has grown rapidly with the advent of the Internet of Things, which extends network capabilities to a wide range of devices, such as office equipment such as thermostats and refrigerators. As a result, businesses may soon discover more new points of attack in their networks, and experts aren't sure if these new generations of embedded devices have addressed the security holes of the previous generation. But according to Benjamin Jun, CTO of security consulting firm ChosenPlaintext Partners, embedded systems have historically used a large number of proprietary components and did not share much common circuitry with other systems, which means that when a vulnerability is discovered, it is not possible due to cost or resource constraints. Very likely to be fixed. 
The proliferation of IoT means that businesses will face security concerns from a wider variety of devices. That said, in addition to USB drives and printers, wearables and other cutting-edge devices may find their way into corporate networks, but typically they don't have built-in security controls. 
So how to prevent the security problems existing in embedded systems? Some people in the industry said that a set of effective security precautions includes three different parts: protection, detection, and response. These countermeasures must work reasonably together based on known threats to the system. In embedded systems, protection, detection, and response techniques can take many forms. These technologies work together to thwart potential attacks or provide useful forensic review information after an attack. 
Another person in the industry said that to solve the security problem of intelligent industrial networks, we can start from two aspects; one is the security of the communication link, and the other is the security of the equipment itself. So in the future, embedded development will be diversified. If you are learning embedded, have you seen a new development direction? If you are interested, you can also contact me privately, and everyone can communicate and progress together. The landlord has saved a lot of dry goods over the years.