THE HIDDEN WORLD OF EMBEDDED SYSTEMS – THE WAY FORWARD

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In our digital world, we are surrounded by embedded systems. Their contribution to society has been enormous. They greet us in the morning, help us during the day, and even keep us secure at night. We rely on them to alert us to our post COVID symptoms, grow our food, keep our car going straight in a rainstorm, assist people with disabilities, and augment our children’s education. These systems run nonstop with minimal human intervention, and it is all due to the miracle of the microchip. Embedded system enabled systems, machines, and algorithms undertaking cognitive tasks raise a myriad of ethical issues. The primary concern is to ensure that embedded system does not harm, directly or indirectly, humans or the environment. The perspectives in this paper are two-fold: - Applications of embedded systems (GPS, medical devices, automotive, automated fare collections, fitness trackers, home entertainment, automated teller machines, manufacturing, electric vehicle charging stations, self-service kiosks, etc.) and the issues associated with use of the predictive capability of embedded systems, primarily machine learning, IoT, machine-to-machine devices, where embedded systems may be employed in design and other optimizations.

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