Anna-Lena Marx - Embedded Systems Engineering

Almost exactly one year after submitting my bachelor’s thesis in electrical engineering – which resulted in the ZEReader Project – I had the chance to meet one of my supervisors again and showcase how much the project has evolved since its initial version.

The ZEReader project is an open-source E-Reader that originated as an electrical engineering thesis.

The embedded systems of the future will be judged by their long-term resilience and security.

Vendor Board Support Packages (BSPs) are the standard for bringing new silicon to market, showcasing features, and promising an “easy” start.

With the second revision, the way ZEReader is turned on and off got a massive redesign.

Vendor Board Support Packages (BSPs) promise a quick start, but we all know the reality: a tangled mess of demo apps, weird custom tools, and an old, unmaintained kernel.

Artwork by: Sparkelle (Yan) — Licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 As embedded systems become increasingly interconnected, the demand for robust platform security and integrity has surged.

In the Yocto world, the .bbappend file is a well-known and documented mechanism for altering recipe files, and an essential part of daily operations.

Building embedded systems with Yocto on ARM platforms is a common practice, but when the products move further to the edge and become less “embedded,” new challenges arise.

Together with my colleague Stefan Lengfeld.

While I’m a regular visitor of the Embedded World Exhibition, this year was different.

Android, or the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), is primarily known from the smartphone market.

Today, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, I’d like to give you an insight on working in Embedded as a woman: Why I’m searching for my best Yocto shirt and the nerdiest hoodie when I’m visiting the Embedded World exhibition.

Over-the-air updates have established themselves as the standard for networked devices, but the effort involved in operating the server side is not always commensurate with the benefits.

LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) is becoming increasingly popular, thanks in part to public networks such as The Things Network, which allow users to dispense with their own gateways.

Using KAS makes handling Yocto Projects easy.

As an embedded dev, my desk is always a mess (and I think the ones of my colleagues, too).

In our community, building embedded systems based on Linux, e.g. with Yocto or buildroot, is standard and well known.

In 2015, we built a sophisticated meeting room information system based on Android Things as a student project.

Maschinen und Geräte durch Vernetzung und Software aufzuwerten ist ein Kerngedanke des IoT.