The Embedded Connectivity technology

Embedded Connectivity technology allows for direct interconnection of embedded systems to local or wide area computer networks.

The mainly used interfaces are:

• wired Ethernet network
• wireless Wi-Fi network
• wireless GSM/GPRS network

The mainly used protocols are:

• UDP/IP
• TCP/IP
• virtually, all higher-level protocols

Thus, in embedded systems, both hardware (with suitable computational power) and software needed to support the same communication mechanisms used by PC to communicate amongst them are available.

A straight consequence of this availability is the relevant ease of integration for embedded systems-controlled hardware platforms with the management software and the databases which reside on host systems, moreover with no dependance from the physical distance.

The Embedded Connectivity technology is thus suitable to several application scenarios; amongst them, as an example, we mention (from experience by TERTIUM Technology):

• the implementation of systems with a PC which acts as man-machine interface and one or more on-field control consoles, connected by wired Ethernet network
• the manufacture of handheld terminals able to operate on-line within areas covered by a Wi-Fi network
• the implementation of data collection consoles or handheld terminals which can be reached by GSM/GPRS on the territory
• the implementation of real-time production process controls systems
• the implementation of devices pools or carriers fleets' control systems spread on the territory.