Wireless sensor networks have enjoyed a lot of attention recently and industry analysts have predicted aggressive growth, but are expectations inflated or are underlying technologies and emerging products ready to solve real-world problems?

As embedded computers have become ubiquitous, so too the need for human machine interfaces has grown.

Chasing Moore’s Law – The Truth Behind the OS and CPU Upgrades for Industrial PC Users

There are three strategies for using the UML for developing C real-time and Object-oriented modeling; Object-based modeling; and Functional-based modeling. This paper focuses on the last approach, Functional-based modeling.