Implementing Continuous Integration
IoT and ML have brought about an explosion of intelligent connected devices that bring massive benefits to various sectors such as industrial, healthcare, and many others. However, with interconnectivity and intelligence comes a steep increase in the complexity of the software.
Factors such as security, over-the-air updates, and networking stacks are essential for connectivity. To enable ML, models may need to be refreshed multiple times a week to stay accurate. For rich OSs such as Linux or Windows, many of these complications are resolved at the OS level and abstracted from the application running on it. For embedded devices, this is typically not true, and that complexity is passed on to the software developer to sort out.
This step change in complexity for embedded devices is causing a major disruption to how embedded software is managed throughout its life cycle. A traditional embedded device, such as a washing machine from the 1990s,...
