From Embedded Systems to Cyber-Physical Systems: Does the Name Change Matter?"

Information technology (IT) systems embedded into enclosing products are called “embedded systems”. Examples include information processing systems in transportation systems, telecommunication or automation. Recently, the term “cyberphysical system” has been proposed in the US. Reasons for proposing the new term include the need to represent complex information processing systems integrated with their physical environment and the need to distinguish such systems from simple microcontroller-based systems, which many people associate with the term “embedded system”. In this talk we will address the question: