In the past half century, the embedded system market has developed rapidly and has become one of the most innovative technology fields. The Internet of Things has made everything around us smarter: from cars to coffee machines; from industrial robots to smart meeting rooms to retail stores.
Intel has long been committed to developing scalable, more secure platforms that help customers capture tremendous growth opportunities and help them face challenges as they seek to increase efficiency through automation. Our subsidiary, Wind River*, is a key player in the embedded market, providing software to help major industries transform older infrastructures, improving efficiency, security and reliability.
(Author: Riccardo Mariani is chief technologist of Intel Functional Safety Division of things and Intel Fellow)
Especially in the automotive and manufacturing industries, the Internet of Things is accelerating its transformation.
What does this mean for you and me? Driverless cars can quickly navigate while passengers are handling other things, making traffic safer and more efficient. As artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other detail-oriented tools increase the plant's ability to operate, factories are safer and workers are more efficient.
At the 2017 International Embedded Application Show in Nuremberg, Germany, March 14-16, Intel will demonstrate its role in the future.
(Intel Pavilion for the 2017 International Embedded Applications Exhibition)
Bring a safer driverless car
Automakers integrate embedded devices into cars to improve driving safety. Walk into the showroom and you can choose a new car with Advanced Driver Assistance (ADAS). Car manufacturers provide collision detection, cruise control, automatic parking, fatigue warning and more. For the automotive industry, the next step is to launch a driverless car, which is also the area that giants such as BMW hope to lead. There is no doubt that driverless cars will be one of the most disruptive technologies of the 21st century. Driverless cars will increase traffic efficiency, increase passenger productivity and reduce pollution by significantly reducing energy consumption. Most importantly, driverless cars will fundamentally change road safety. According to the World Health Organization, the number of people dying every year from traffic accidents worldwide is about 1.2 million. Researchers believe that driverless cars can reduce accident rates by up to 90%, and every 10 years is expected to protect 10 million people from traffic accidents.
To achieve this goal, driverless cars need unprecedented reliability, availability, security, and functional safety through hardware, software, and networking technologies—from vehicles to the cloud. Vehicle safety is extremely important, which is also the key to the international standard ISO 26262 for the automotive industry. Passengers must trust artificial intelligence to navigate the car. To minimize the risk of accidents, automakers will need to ensure that driverless cars can communicate with each other, identify surrounding conditions, adapt to weather changes, receive real-time map updates, and defend against cyber attacks. These will require ultra-high processing power and generate massive amounts of data (4000GB per vehicle per day). Responding to this data flood requires 5G and a strong data center infrastructure that can only be achieved through cross-industry collaboration between telecommunications companies, technology companies, automakers and suppliers.
Intel has always attached great importance to partnerships and developed strong industry standards to lead the industry. To provide integrated building blocks to automakers and TIer 1 suppliers to launch the most secure driverless systems, we launched the Intel® GOTM platform. The solution supports a wide range of architectures, from traditional CPUs to FPGAs and deep learning hardware acceleration technologies. Importantly, the Intel® GOTM Driverless Solution itself supports both functional safety and multi-layer security, making it the industry's first unmanned development platform to support 5G.
Reconstructing the industrial pattern
Much of our work in the field of driverless driving is equally applicable to the industrial sector. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, image recognition, precision single point positioning, interconnected sensors, and machine-to-machine communication can all be used to increase plant performance. We've seen factories moving toward automated processes, robotic material transportation, and predictive and adaptive maintenance—the advances in edge computing, big data, and the Internet of Things are driving this.
One of the biggest challenges manufacturers face today is the need to integrate functional safety into the overall control and automation architecture. We recently released the Intel® Xeon® processor D-1529. The processor not only provides functional safety in accordance with IEC 61508 safety certification for robots, autonomous systems and industrial controls, but also provides high-performance computing while ensuring high availability and reliability.
(Exor Smart Factory is designed to help Intel interpret a complete Industrial Internet of Things Platform (IIOT) through multi-vendor, multi-device connectivity, rule and process management, visualization, analysis, data storage and external interfaces)
To demonstrate the true application of new industrial technologies at the International Embedded Applications Expo, Wind River will showcase a built-in, functionally safe robotic arm that will enter safe mode when simulated system errors occur. The robotic arm uses Wind River's VxWorks real-time operating system and Intel® Xeon® processor D-1529. In addition, an industrial automation demonstration will show how the control system can be virtualized, maintain and upgrade existing plant equipment and add new technology capabilities, while leveraging the Wind River Helix Device Cloud SaaS platform and its new software virtualization platform. Designed to advance the Industrial Internet of Things and expand with existing equipment.
Intel will also demonstrate how to improve the industrial environment through an Exor Smart Factory demo. The demonstration simulates a smart factory based on Intel processors and FPGAs and shows how the two can be used to create the highly automated IoT environment required by modern industrial companies. FPGAs complement Intel processors in three areas: accelerating key algorithms for data analysis and machine learning; providing runtime configurable hardware for software-defined automation; and providing acceleration, offloading, and security, even after installing FPGAs in the factory.
These examples in the automotive and industrial sectors are just an overview of how embedded systems change across industries, using Intel technology to connect to a wide range of enterprise ecosystems. It is these connections that bring extraordinary experiences to reality.
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